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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. Chaos gods - Wikipedia

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    Apep the ultimate evil of Egyptian mythology in snake form; Isfet chaos, disorder, and injustice - opposed to Maat; Nu (mythology) primordial waters Set (deity) was not originally evil, but developed into a hated figure thanks to the invading Hyksos who identified him with their chief god, fights Apep.

  4. Nu (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Nu ("Watery One") or Nun ("The Inert One") (Ancient Egyptian: nnw Nānaw; Coptic: Ⲛⲟⲩⲛ Noun), in ancient Egyptian religion, is the personification of the primordial watery abyss which existed at the time of creation and from which the creator sun god Ra arose.

  5. Greek primordial deities - Wikipedia

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    Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BC) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...

  6. Poseidon - Wikipedia

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    In Greece the river god Acheloos is represented as a bull or a man-bull. [37] Burkert suggests that the Hellenic cult of Poseidon as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC. [2] In the Boeotian myth Poseidon is the water-god and Erinys is a goddess of the underworld. [40]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Cosmic ocean - Wikipedia

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    The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva (opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum, 1835).. A cosmic ocean, cosmic sea, primordial waters, or celestial river is a mythological motif that represents the world or cosmos enveloped by a vast primordial ocean.

  9. Scamander - Wikipedia

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    Scamander was the father of King Teucer whose mother was the water nymph Idaea. He was also mentioned as the father of Glaucia , lover of Deimachus . Additionally, Xanthus was credited to be the father of Eurythemista who bore Pelops and Niobe to Tantalus . [ 5 ]