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Hydaspes was a Titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra, an Oceanid. He was the brother of Iris , the messenger goddess of the rainbow . [ 1 ] By default, Hydaspes possible siblings were Arke [ 2 ] and the Harpies .
The ancient Greeks also regarded the river as a god, as they did most mountains and streams. The poet Nonnus in the Dionysiaca [14] calls the Hydaspes a titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra, the brother of Iris, goddess of the rainbow, and half-brother to the harpies, the snatching winds.
According to Hesiod, Thaumas's wife was Electra (one of the Oceanids, the many daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys), by whom he fathered Iris (the messenger of the gods), Arke (formerly the messenger of the Titans), and the Harpies. [2] The names of Thaumas's Harpy daughters vary. Hesiod and Apollodorus name them: Aello and Ocypete.
Another daughter, Sinope, tricked three amorous gods into leaving her virginity intact. Inachus, the first king of Argos and progenitor of the Argive line through his son Argus. Nilus, Egyptian river god and the father of numerous daughters who mingled with the descendants of Inachus, forming a dynasty of kings in Egypt, Libya, Arabia and Ethiopia.
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.
] Her harpy-sisters were Aello and Celaeno, whereas other mentioned siblings were Iris, and possibly Arke [2] and Hydaspes. [3] In other accounts, Harpies were called the progeny of Typhoeus, father of these monsters, [4] or of Pontus (Sea) and Gaea (Earth) or of Poseidon, god of the sea. [5]
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
Hydaspes surrenders and Dionysus draws back his torch. The Bacchic army finishes crossing the river only to find that Deriades has placed his troops on the other bank of the river. The gods come down from the Olympus to save their protégés and the army settles in the hills nearby. Thureus tells the Indian king Deriades of what has happened.