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2. Sedna (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   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 equivalent of the underworld .

3. List of water deities - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Nuliajuk - Wikipedia

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   Nuliajuk is a goddess of the Netsilik Inuit. According to Rasmussen [ 1 ] Nuliajuk lives on the bottom of the sea and controls sea mammals ( seals , walruses , and sea lions ). Whenever humans neglect to observe ritual prohibitions, she imprisons the sea-mammals within the drip-basin under her lamp (making them unavailable to hunters), so that ...

5. Ceto (Greek myth) - Wikipedia

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   'sea monster' or 'whale' [1]) may refer to three divine women: Ceto, a primordial sea goddess and daughter of Pontus (Sea) and Gaia (Earth). [2] She was the mother of the Phorcydes by her brother Phorcys. [3] Ceto, a "naiad daughter of Oceanos" and thus one of the Oceanids. Her mother was probably the Titaness Tethys. [1] Ceto bore Helios a ...

6. Ceto - Wikipedia

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   Besides Ceto, Gaia (Earth) and Pontus had four other offspring, Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys and Eurybia. [2] Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Ceto and Phorcys as the two Graiae: Pemphredo and Enyo, and the three Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa, [3] with their last offspring being an unnamed serpent (later called Ladon, by Apollonius of Rhodes) who guards the golden apples. [4]

7. Whale worship - Wikipedia

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   "Nghinh Ong Thang Tam Vung Tau" festival, which lasts from August 15 to 18 in the lunar calendar, includes rituals such as praying the sea gods, a procession of the whale god from the sea to the Thang Tam Temple (often known as "The Whale Temple") and hosting a feast to ancestors and heroic martyrs. [19]