Greek Mythology ?

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In greek mythology who was patron goddess of the sea ?

Answer 1

In Greek mythology, Tethys, daughter of Uranus and Gaea was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the world, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. Considered as an embodiment of the waters of the world she may be seen as a counterpart of Thalassa, embodiment of the sea.

During the war against the Titans, Tethys raised Rhea as her god-child.

Tethys is sometimes confused with the sea-nymph Thetis, the wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles.

Hera was not pleased with the placement of Callisto and Arcas in the sky, as the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, so she asked her nurse, Tethys, to help. Tethys, a marine goddess, caused the constellations to forever circle the sky and never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar.

Answer 2

Because the Greek word aphros legend arose that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Aphrodite was, in fact, widely worshiped as a goddess of the sea and of seafaring.

Answer 3

Poseidon
(pōsī´dn) , in Greek religion and mythology, god of the sea, protector of all waters. After the fall of the Titans, Poseidon was allotted the sea. He was worshiped especially in connection with navigation; but as the god of fresh waters he also was worshiped as a fertility god. In Thessaly and other areas he was important as Hippios, god of horses, and was the father of Pegasus. Poseidon was represented as extremely powerful, with a violent and vengeful disposition. He carried the trident, with which he could split boulders and cause earthquakes. When Laomedon failed to pay him for building the walls of Troy, Poseidon sent a sea monster to ravage the Troad and years later vengefully assisted the Greeks in the Trojan War. His grudge against Odysseus is one of the themes of the Odyssey. He was the husband of Amphitrite, who bore him Triton, and by others he fathered many more sons, who usually turned out to be strong, brutal men (like Orion) or monsters (like Polyphemus). The Romans identified him with Neptune. also

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ThquV
Têthys
Tethys
Grandmother,
Nurse (têthê)
TETHYS was the Titan goddess of the subterranean sources of fresh water, as well as the patron goddess of the nursing of the young.

She was the wife of Okeanos, the earth-encircling stream, source of all fresh-water, and mother of the Potamoi (Rivers), Okeanides (Springs, Streams & Fountains) and Nephelai (Clouds). Tethys herself probably presided over the legendary springs of the River Okeanos. Her waters were subterranean, flowing through the hollows of the earth, to be birthed as springs and rivers.

In Greek vase painting she was usually depicted as a woman in the company of Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, and her fish-tailed husband Okeanos. In mosaic art Tethys appears with a pair of small wings decorating her brow, perhaps suggesting her role as the mother of the rain-couds.

Tethys was probably identical to the fish-tailed Titanis Eurynome, one-time Queen of Heaven, who was cast by Kronos into the Ocean-stream along with her husband Ophion. She was also closely identified with the Protogenos Thesis (Mother Creation). Tethys was later described by some poets as the sea personified, and in this sense was identified with Thalassa

Answer 4

Poseidon was the God of the sea. There were also nymphs with varying degrees of power (including Achilles' mother) but Poseidon was the head honcho.

Answer 5

Thetis

Answer 6

i thought Poseidon was lord of sea...maybe one of his daughters?