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Peneus, river god of Thessaly flowing from the foot of Pindus. He was the father of Daphne and Stilbe , love interests of the god Apollo. Scamander , who fought on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War , and was offended when Achilles polluted his waters with a large number of Trojan corpses.
The Xenokrateia Relief, from the late fifth century BC, commemorates the founding of a sanctuary to Cephissus, National Archaeological Museum of Athens.. In Greek mythology Cephissus also spelled Kephissos (/ ˈ k ɛ f ɪ ˌ s ə s / or / ˌ k ɪ f ɪ ˈ s oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Κηφισός, romanized: Kephisos) is a river god of ancient Greece, associated with the river Cephissus in ...
On this sacred day, Jesus stood (presumably at the Temple) and cried out: If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. (John 7:37–38) Many translations include the scriptural reference within the words Jesus cried out.
In Greek mythology, Nilus (/ ˈ n aɪ l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Νεῖλος, romanized: Neilos) is one of the three thousand river gods, who represent the god of the Nile river itself. Nilus is the son of the water gods Oceanus and Tethys.
Achelous was a rural-agricultural water god whose importance was a reflection of the agricultural importance of rivers and their fertile river deltas. This relationship is also reflected in the association of Achelous' broken-off horn with the cornucopia or horn of plenty. [ 62 ]
Walter Burkert points out, "When in the Iliad [xx.4–9] Zeus calls the gods into assembly on Mount Olympus, it is not only the well-known Olympians who come along, but also all the nymphs and all the rivers; Okeanos alone remains at his station", [2] Greek hearers recognized this impossibility as the poet's hyperbole, which proclaimed the ...
In Iliad XXII (149ff), Homer states that the river had two springs: one produced warm water; the other yielded cold water, regardless of the season. According to Homer, he was called Xanthos by gods and Scamander by men, which might indicate that the former name refers to the god and the latter one to the river itself. [8]
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 ...