Merlion is considered as a national embodiment of Singapore. Merlion is composed of two words “Mer” and “Lion” where “Mer” refers to the sea and “Lion” is the same Lion that you know. Now if you closely look the Merlion’s statue you can easily see that it has a head of Lion and the lower body of a fish or mermaid. The lower fish body of the Merlion denotes the origin of Singapore as a fishing village, back then it was called “Temasek” which means Sea Town. The lion head depicts Singapore’s authenticity as its original name was “Singapura” which means Lion City. Doesn’t it explains it all.