sentences:  Ashamed, she jumped into a lake and took the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty.Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid—human above the waist, fish below—although the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as a fish with a human head and arm, similar to the Babylonian god Ea.The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo.