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  2. Oceanus - Wikipedia

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    Oceanus was the eldest of the Titan offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). [11] Hesiod lists his Titan siblings as Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. [12] Oceanus married his sister Tethys, and was by her the father of numerous sons, the river gods and numerous daughters, the ...

  3. Pontus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    'Sea') [1] was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the Greek primordial deities. Pontus was Gaia 's son and has no father; according to the Greek poet Hesiod , he was born without coupling, [ 2 ] though according to Hyginus , Pontus is the son of Aether and Gaia.

  4. 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.

  5. Is “KAOS” Based on Mythology? A Who's Who Guide to the Show's ...

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    The last of the three major gods, Poseidon is the god of the ocean and earthquakes. He is often seen with a trident and is married to Amphitrite, a sea nymph. He is also Zeus and Hades' brother ...

  6. Titans - Wikipedia

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    It told how the Titan Cronus, the youngest of the Titans, overthrew Uranus, and how in turn Zeus, by waging and winning a great ten-year war pitting the new gods against the old gods, called the Titanomachy ("Titan war"), overthrew Cronus and his fellow Titans, and was eventually established as the final and permanent ruler of the cosmos. [42]

  7. 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 ...

  8. Greek water deities - Wikipedia

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    The primacy of water gods is reminiscent of, and may even have been influenced by, ancient Near Eastern mythology - where Tiamat (salt water) and Apsu (fresh water) are the first gods of the Enuma Elish, and where the Spirit of God is said to have "hovered over the waters" in Genesis. Pontus is the primordial deity of the sea.

  9. Tethys (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Hesiod lists her Titan siblings as Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Cronus. [4] Tethys married her brother Oceanus, an enormous river encircling the world, and was by him the mother of numerous sons (the river gods ) and numerous daughters (the Oceanids ).