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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.
The ancient Greeks had numerous water deities. The philosopher Plato once remarked [ 1 ] that the Greek people were like frogs sitting around a pond—their many cities hugging close to the Mediterranean coastline from the Hellenic homeland to Asia Minor , Libya , Sicily , and southern Italy .
It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to Homer or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the Iliad. [3] Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters; [4] while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been ...
Triton (/ ˈ t r aɪ t ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Τρίτων, romanized: Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea.
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In Greek mythology, the nymph daughters of the Titan Oceanus (Ocean), were known collectively as the Oceanids. Four ancient sources give lists of names of Oceanids. The oldest, and longest such list, given by the late 8th–early 7th century BC Greek poet Hesiod, names 41 Oceanids. [1]
These deities can also govern natural features such as mountains, trees, or volcanoes. Accepted in animism , pantheism , panentheism , polytheism , deism , totemism , shamanism , Taoism , Hinduism , and paganism , the nature deity can embody a number of archetypes including mother goddess , Mother Nature , or lord of the animals .
Like Metis, the Oceanids also functioned as the wives (or lovers) of many gods, and the mothers, by these gods, of many other gods and goddesses. [13] Doris was the wife of the sea-god Nereus, and the mother of the fifty sea nymphs, the Nereids. [14] Styx was the wife of the Titan Pallas, and the mother of Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia. [15]