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Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Several types of water deities conform to a single type: that of Homer's halios geron or Old Man of the Sea: Nereus, Proteus, Glaucus and Phorkys. These water deities are not as powerful as Poseidon, the main god of the oceans and seas. Each is a shape-shifter, a prophet, and the father of either radiantly beautiful nymphs or hideous monsters ...
Water gods in Meitei mythology (2 P) Pages in category "Water gods" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Water gods (5 C, 44 P) I. Ice and snow deities (10 P) R. Rain deities (2 C, 47 P) S. Sea and river deities (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Water deities"
A Greek dryad depicted in a painting. In religion, a nature deity is a deity in charge of forces of nature, such as water, biological processes, or weather.These deities can also govern natural features such as mountains, trees, or volcanoes.
In Greek mythology, the naiads (/ ˈ n aɪ æ d z, ˈ n eɪ æ d z,-ə d z /; Ancient Greek: ναϊάδες, romanized: naïádes), sometimes also hydriads, [1] are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are distinct from river gods, who embodied rivers ...
The Shinto water god is believed to be the guardian of fishermen and the patron saint of fertility, motherhood, and painless childbirth.People worship Suijin with offerings, believing that doing so will ensure pure and unpolluted water for drinking, agriculture, and sanitation, and will bring success in fishing trips, fertility, motherhood, and easy childbirth. [3]
Selemnus is changed into a river-god (detail), 1710 engraving by Jan Goeree, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In Greek mythology, Selemnus (Ancient Greek: Σέλεμνος, romanized: Sélemnos) is a young shepherd boy turned river god from the Peloponnese in southern Greece.