Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus [nɛpˈtuːnʊs]) is the god of freshwater and the sea in the Roman religion. [2] He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. [3] In the Greek-inspired tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto, with whom preside over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld), and the seas. [4]
Nethuns. In Etruscan mythology, Nethuns [1] was the god of wells, later expanded to all water, including the sea. The name "Nethuns" is likely cognate with that of the Celtic god Nechtan and the Persian and Vedic gods sharing the name Apam Napat, perhaps all based on the Proto-Indo-European word *népōts "nephew, grandson."
The average distance between Neptune and the Sun is 4.5 billion km (about 30.1 astronomical units (AU), the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun), and it completes an orbit on average every 164.79 years, subject to a variability of around ±0.1 years. The perihelion distance is 29.81 AU, and the aphelion distance is 30.33 AU.
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.
Salacia. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ səˈleɪʃə / 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] Neptune was her consort. [2] That Salacia was the consort of Neptune is implied by Varro, [3] and is positively affirmed ...
19.7 [ 10 ] Proteus (/ ˈproʊtiəs / PROH-tee-əs), also known as Neptune VIII, is the second-largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite. Discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989, it is named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Greek mythology. [ 11 ] Proteus orbits Neptune in a nearly equatorial orbit at a distance of about ...
Category. : Neptune (mythology) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neptunus (deus). Articles relating to Neptune, the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.
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 ...