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Nehalennia, goddess of the North Sea. Nerthus, mostly an earth goddess, but is also associated with lakes, springs, and holy waters. Nine Daughters of Ægir, who personify the characteristics of waves. Nix, water spirits who usually appear in human form. Njörðr, god of the sea, particularly of seafaring. Rán, sea goddess of death who ...
Sedna (Inuktitut: ᓴᓐᓇ, romanized: Sanna, previously Sedna or Sidne) is the goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit religion, also known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun , the Inuit version of the underworld .
'sea-nourished') [14] with Thetis. [15] In some sense, the sea-nymphs are doublets. Pindar, in his sixth Olympian Ode, recognized Poseidon's role as "great god of the sea, husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the golden spindle." For later poets, Amphitrite became simply a metaphor for the sea: Euripides, in Cyclops (702) and Ovid, Metamorphoses ...
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Large mosaic scenes also portrayed rows of sea-gods and nymphs arranged in a coiling procession of intertwined fish-tails. Other scenes show the birth of Aphrodite, often raised in a conch shell by a pair of sea centaurs, and accompanied by fishing Erotes (winged love gods). It was in this medium that most of the obscure maritime gods of Homer ...
She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus. [1] When described as a Nereid in Classical myths, Thetis was the daughter of Nereus and Doris, [2] and a granddaughter of Tethys with whom she sometimes shares characteristics. Often she seems to lead the Nereids as they ...
Illustration of coral with the goddess at the base, from a 6th-century medical discourse. While the sea-divinities Tethys and Oceanus were formerly represented in Roman-era mosaics, they were replaced at a later period by the figure of Thalassa, especially in Western Asia. There she was depicted as a woman clothed in bands of seaweed and half ...
Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, Herculaneum, 1st c. AD Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1690. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə / sə-LAY-shə, Latin: [saˈɫaːkia]) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. [1]