Once upon a time, an artist was sleeping by the sea when the Haitian Vodou goddess of love appeared to him in a dream and pulled him underwater. She wanted him to paint her.
And so he did. Frantz Zéphirin, a renowned Haitian artist and Vodou priest, painted the spirit Erzuile Fréda just as she wanted, though her request was a little strange and incredibly detailed. Zéphirin painted her as a mermaid with a cat ear on one side of her head and small horn on the other. A halo floats over her, and she is surrounded by fish playing instruments and animals wearing tailored pants.
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