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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. Dione (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Károly Kerényi notes in this context that the name Dione resembles the Latin name Diana, and is a feminine form of the name Zeus (cf Latin deus, god), hence meaning "goddess of the bright sky". [3] This association does not prevent her, however, from being worshipped along with Zeus as a deity of springs, making her a water-goddess. [3]

  4. Greek water deities - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Sea and river goddesses - Wikipedia

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  6. Salacia - Wikipedia

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    Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, Herculaneum, 1st c. AD Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1690. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə / sə-LAY-shə, Latin: [saˈɫaːkia]) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. [1]

  7. List of nature deities - Wikipedia

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    Izanami, Izanagi's wife and sister, goddess of creation and death, first female; Konohanasakuya-hime, the blossom princess and symbol of delicate earthly life; Shinigami, god of death; Suijin, god of water; Fūjin, god of wind; Kagu-tsuchi, god of fire; Susanoo, god of storms, (fertility in Izumo legends), younger brother to Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi

  8. Nu (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Nun can be seen as the first of all the gods and the creator of reality and personification of the cosmos. Nun is also considered the god that will destroy existence and return everything to the Nun whence it came. No cult was addressed to Nun. Nun's consort (or his female aspect) was the goddess Nunut [2] or Naunet (Ancient Egyptian: nnwt).

  9. Amphitrite - Wikipedia

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    Amphitrite is the name of a genus of the worm family Terebellidae. In poetry, Amphitrite's name is often used for the sea, as a synonym of Thalassa. Seven ships of the Royal Navy were named HMS Amphitrite; Amphitrite (1802 ship), which wrecked in 1833 with heavy loss of life while transporting convicts to New South Wales