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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.
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.
Dian Cecht made King Nuada a silver arm which could move and function as a normal arm. Later his son, Miach, replaced the silver arm with an arm of flesh and blood, and Dian Cecht killed him out of professional envy. Miach's sister, Airmed, mourned over her brother's grave. As her tears fell, all the healing herbs of the world grew from the grave.
Several types of water deities conform to a single type: that of Homer's halios geron or Old Man of the Sea: Nereus, Proteus, Glaucus and Phorkys. These water deities are not as powerful as Poseidon, the main god of the oceans and seas. Each is a shape-shifter, a prophet, and the father of either radiantly beautiful nymphs or hideous monsters ...
The Lamborghini Countach (/ ˈ k uː n t ɑː ʃ / ⓘ KOON-tahsh) [8] is a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive sports car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Lamborghini from 1974 until 1990.
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.
As a god of pure water, Fons can be placed in opposition to Liber as a god of wine identified with Bacchus. [ 5 ] An inscription includes Fons among a series of deities who received expiatory sacrifices by the Arval Brothers in 224 AD, when several trees in the sacred grove of Dea Dia , their chief deity, had been struck by lightning and burnt.
After both sides were nearly destroyed, the highest god of them all upon hearing what happened, became angry with Argon for plotting and provoking the dispute, so intervened and struck down Argon, tearing loose his eye (the source of his power), and damned him to the deepest abyss of the oceans, entrusting the eye to Glaucus and keeping the ...