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Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Your comment that "fish and birds represent other worlds to humans in both cases, so fish and birds who live in those worlds were considered sacred or at least very respected" caused much mulling and pondering as I completed gardening and lawn- and yard-working yesterday to the sound of blue jays, cardinals, eastern bluebirds, mourning doves and ovenbirds and to the sound-lessness of the back-yard fish-less ephemeral, vernal pool.

Might birds be respected and sacred-ized because of their mastering flight even as might fish be respected and sacred-ized because of their mastering extended underwater survival?

We muster flight and underwaterness only through add-ons - such as planes and subs -- and not through our own adaptability!

It's very interesting to note how important was birds, not just fish in her life. Very similar to Atargatis. I guess fish and birds represent other worlds to humans in both cases, so fish and birds who live in those worlds were considered sacred or at least very respected.

My favorite beers are Sam Adams and the Wisconsin beers.

Do you have a battered potato recipe?

I find it difficult to believe that Sam Adams- or Wisconsin beer-battered potatoes would be anything but A+ delicious for you and your wife ;-D!

Ancient Hawaiians featured as the sister of their volcano goddess Pele Nāmaka, fish-tailed mermaid who found as a husband the mortal 'Aikāne.

Ancient Hawaiian culture figures a gecko-like lizard as predecessor to those human women who, as sea goddesses, ultimately fill, in wahine hi'u i'a (woman with a fish tail, "woman tail fish" literally ) forms, the water world,

That tradition, as found in the Kumulipo ("origin dark night") creation chant, fixes all air and land evolution to the original water world.

'Aikāne's ("friendly male") frequent flirting furnished the Hawaiian islands with their forceful shoreline currents because of Nāmaka's reactive fury.

Not too frightening for the fury-est fury as surf-friendly waves, right?

Every culture has its own view on mermaids. That's part of their charm, I guess. Thanks for sharing this tidbit about Basque mermaids.

Basque culture has mermaid traditions of itsaslamiak, those who habitate shores, and lamiak, those who habitat water bodies.

The former have duck-like feet even as the latter have fish tails.

There's no such thing as a bad mermaid. It's because of them that human biogeographies include bridges ;-D!

Is there such a thing elsewhere as an ugly mermaid? Not in Basque tradition!

They we're,,used, to weigh down the inward facing rim

A wise comment indeed.

Yes and that would be the explanation for Passive Aagressive Narcissism

Your answer, from July 14, 2016, four comment boxes down advises us that "In the next day or two we are transferring a greenhouse from one plot to mine. Heeding my own advice on getting younger assistance, Jeff, who is sixty seven and I, sixty six now, have called on the services of my son Andrew. It is not only the greenhouse that needs moving, but also the flag stones that weigh it down, much necessary in my rather windy location in a windy isle. We are placing it with its door on the side opposite the prevailing wind, facing east, whereas the prevailing wind is from the west."

Are flagstones in addition to, or in replacement of, flooring?

If they are separate stones aligned continuously across the ground, might there be a problem of things dropping, and getting wedged, between those stones?

The plants on which cooks draw are the same across The British Isles, though some are specific to an area.

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

Concerning myself with different and similar culinary configurations causes me to consider different and similar building and vegetation configurations.

Do the border regions of the biogeographical Between Britain draw upon the same business- and residence-designing traditions? Do they draw upon the same non-woody and woody plants?

Mushy peas do not substitute for chips. They are an optional part of the recipe. Similarly, malt vinegar is an optional condiment. It is not an alternative to ketchup.

Your in-text image of the padlock tradition draws me again and again.

The padlock ages intrigue me. Is there a way of investigating how old the oldest padlock is?

Your in-text image of the padlock tradition draws me again and again.

The padlock ages intrigue me. Is there a way of investigating how old the oldest padlock is?