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  2. List of water deities - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Phlegethon - Wikipedia

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    In Orphic literature, in which there are four rivers of the underworld, the Phlegethon is associated with the element of fire, and the direction east. [ 3 ] In Oedipus by Seneca the Younger , the first singing of the chorus, which mainly describes the plague that has settled in Thebes , includes the line, "Phlegethon has changed his course and ...

  4. List of thunder gods - Wikipedia

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    Umvelinqangi (god of thunder, earthquakes, sun and sky in Zulu mythology) Ta Kora (God of War and Strife in the Akom religion, as well as God of Thunder and lightning in the Northern Akan peoples' sect of Akom, such as the Asante) Bobowissi (God of Thunder in the Southern Akan peoples' sect of Akom, such as the Fante. Also rival to Tano)

  5. List of Mesopotamian deities - Wikipedia

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    A fragmentary late neo-Assyrian god list appears to consider her and another figure regarded as the wife of Anu, Urash, as one and the same, and refers to "Ki-Urash." [403] Kittum: Bad-Tibira, Rahabu [404] Kittum was a daughter of Utu and Sherida. [405] Her name means "Truth". [405] Kus: Kus is a god of herdsmen referenced in the Theogony of ...

  6. Slavic water spirits - Wikipedia

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    After the first thunder, they return to their rivers or rise to the skies. [10] According to Polish folklore, they appeared on new moon and lured young men to play with them, killing them with tickles or frenzied dancing. [11] Sometimes they would ask a riddle, and, if given the right answer, they would leave the man alone. [12]

  7. List of Egyptian deities - Wikipedia

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    Nemty – Falcon god, worshiped in Middle Egypt, [22] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods [23] Neper – A god of Grain [24] Osiris – A god of death and resurrection who rules the Underworld and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls [25] Ptah – A creator deity and god of craftsmen, the patron god of Memphis [26]

  8. Eridanos (mythological river) - Wikipedia

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    A small river near Athens was named Eridanos in ancient times, and has been rediscovered with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro.There were no serious scientific works that would investigate the connection of Eridanus with the Balkan hydronym for the river Drina, although such studies would be necessary, bearing in mind the ...

  9. Naiad - Wikipedia

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    daughter of the local river-god Cephisus Liriope: Phocis bore a son Narcissus to the river-god Cephisus Lotis: Dryopia/ Doris: escape from the embraces of Priapus was metamorphosed into a tree Melanthea - daughter of the river-god Alpheus; she bore to Poseidon a daughter, Eirene: Melia: Argolis an Oceanid; mother, by Inachus, of Phoroneus and ...