Life is To Short....
Whoooops!!!!
Just looked at "Wikipedia"...
Turns out that the Starbucks' icon is a "twin-tailed sea siren"...
Well, it's NOT a dayyamed "sea-goddess", at any rate...
Just an icon from mariners' culture...
Here's a discussion of the various forms that "sirens" have taken throughout history...
http://northstargallery.com/mermaids/mermaidhistory2.htm
And here's a website that gives a somewhat obscure - and quite gruesome - meaning to the term, "figurehead"...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-superstitionsofsailors.html
Crud, Flipper...
Sorry to tug your thread off-topic... Again....