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Leukothea, Goddess of Sailors. In Greek mythology, Leucothea (/ lj uː ˈ k oʊ θ i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λευκοθέα, romanized: Leukothéa, lit. 'white goddess'), sometimes also called Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, romanized: Leukothóē), was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph.
In Greek mythology, Ino (/ ˈ aɪ n oʊ / EYE-noh; Ancient Greek: Ἰνώ [1]) was a Theban princess who later became a queen of Boeotia.After her death and transfiguration, she was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess."
In Greek mythology, Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη) may refer to the following figures: Leucothoe, the Nereid of the sea's brine [1] and one of the fifty marine-nymph daughters of the Old Man of the Sea Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [2] [3] Leucothea or Leucothoe, name of Ino after becoming a sea-deity. [4] [5]
Terra cotta head depicting Catha or Leucothea. From Pyrgi, Italy. Rome, Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia. Ca, fourth century BCE. Catha (Etruscan: 𐌀𐌈𐌀𐌂, romanized: Catha, also written 𐌈𐌀𐌂, Cath, 𐌀𐌈𐌖𐌀𐌂, Cautha, or 𐌀𐌈𐌅𐌀𐌊, Kavtha) is a female Etruscan lunar or solar deity, who may also be connected to childbirth, and has a connection to the ...
In Greek mythology, Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη) may refer to the following figures: Painting of Apollo caressing the Nymph Leucothea, by French Painter Antoine Boizot. Leucothoe, the Nereid of the sea's brine [1] and one of the fifty marine-nymph daughters of the Old Man of the Sea Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [2] [3]
In Greek mythology, Melicertes (Ancient Greek: Μελικέρτης, romanized: Melikértēs, sometimes Melecertes), later called Palaemon or Palaimon (Παλαίμων), was a Boeotian prince as the son of King Athamas and Ino, daughter of King Cadmus of Thebes. He was the brother of Learchus. [1]
In Greek mythology Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, from λευκός, "white", and θοός, "quick, swift") was a Babylonian princess. The daughter of Orchamus, a king of Persia, Leucothoe was either a lover of the sun god Helios or a victim of rape.
Spindrift is derived from the Scots language, but its further etymology is uncertain. [4] Although the Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a variant of spoondrift based on the way that word was pronounced in southwest Scotland, [5] from spoon or spoom ("to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted") and drift ("a mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a ...