AquarianThe Healers
The Aquarian is a modern speculative being tied to the constellation of the water-bearer: an amphibious healer people from an ocean world. It draws on the long folklore of water spirits and the astrological 'Age of Aquarius'.
At a glance
- Home system
- Aquarius
- Avg. height
- 5′11″ – 7′7″
- Appearance
- Aquatic, blue-green skin, finned crest
- Reported lifespan
- 250 – 500 years (lore)
- Social structure
- Described as healer collectives
- Technology
- Described as bio-acoustic
- Primary traits
- Empathetic, healing, fluid
- Relationship to Earth
- Described as supportive
Physical profile
The Aquarian is an amphibious humanoid with sleek blue-green skin, a fin-like crest running from the crown down the back of the head, webbed hands and large luminous eyes adapted, in the lore, to low light. Renderings often give the skin a faint bioluminescent pattern. The type is portrayed as gentle and healing.
Reported origin
Aquarius, the Water Bearer, is a large zodiacal constellation with no bright stars and no known ocean worlds. The name attaches through astrology rather than astronomy: the 'Age of Aquarius' of New Age expectation gave the constellation a spiritual charge that the lore adopted.
Culture
Collective and therapeutic: a society of healers living in ocean cities and communicating through sound.
Technology
Bio-acoustic and water-based in the lore.
Craft
Not described.
Communication
Sonic and telepathic in the speculative material.
Earth encounters
There are no witness cases. The Aquarian is a modern speculative synthesis of water-spirit folklore, the astrological Age of Aquarius and the general amphibious-visitor tradition.
Lore & history
Water spirits appear in every mythology, from Mesopotamian Oannes to the mermaids of Europe and the Mami Wata of West Africa. XenoAtlas lists the Aquarian as speculative folklore.
The Age of Aquarius, popularised by the 1967 musical Hair, is an astrological idea about the precession of the equinoxes; it has no astronomical content beyond that slow wobble, and no bearing on life in the constellation.
Source notes
- Water-spirit folklore (comparative) · folklore
- Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia (2018) · referenceFind on Amazon
- Leslie Kean, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010) · journalismFind on Amazon
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Related species
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