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Pegasides. Pleiades. Potamides. v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Capheira ( Ancient Greek: Καφείρας or Καφείρα Kapheira) was an Oceanid, as a daughter of the Titan of the Sea, Oceanus, [ 1] possibly by his sister-wife Tethys. [ 2] Her name means "stormy-breath" from eir and kaphos.[ 2]
A nymph (Ancient Greek: νύμφη, romanized: nýmphē; Attic Greek: [nýmpʰɛː]; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore. Distinct from other Greek goddesses , nymphs are generally regarded as personifications of nature; they are typically tied to a specific place, landform, or tree, and are ...
Woodnymph. Woodnymphs are hummingbirds in the genus Thalurania. Males are green and violet-blue, while females are green with white-tipped tails and at least partially whitish underparts. Both sexes have an almost straight, entirely black bill and little or no white post-ocular spot.
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Chloris was abducted by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind (which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Orithyia), who transformed her into a deity known as Flora after they were married.
A dryad (/ ˈdraɪ.æd /; Greek: Δρυάδες, sing. Δρυάς) is a tree nymph or tree spirit in Greek mythology; Drys (δρῦς) signifies "oak" in Greek. Dryads were originally considered the nymphs of oak trees specifically, but the term has evolved towards tree nymphs in general. [1] Often their life force was connected to the tree in ...
Ephyra, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus [1] and his sister-wife Tethys. [2] Otherwise, she was called the daughter [3] or wife [4] [5] of the Titan Epimetheus. Ephyra was the first to dwell in the land of Ephyrae, which was later called Corinth. [6] In some accounts, her father was called Myrmex.
Syrinx was a beautiful wood nymph who had many times attracted the attention of satyrs, and fled their advances in turn. She worshipped Artemis, the goddess of wilderness, and, like her, had vowed to remain a virgin for all of time. Pursued by the amorous god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs.