River gods (Greek mythology)
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, rivers were often personified as deities, and in a number of ancient Greek cities river gods were the subject of local worship. In Hesiod's Theogony, the river
Nilus, the potamos of the Nile River, depicted in a Coptic tapestry
Naiad
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In Greek mythology, the naiads, sometimes also hydriads, are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are dist
River gods (Greek mythology)
…were the 3000 sons of the great earth-encircling river Oceanus and his wife Tethys and the brothers of the Oceanids. They were also the fathers of the Naiads. The river gods were depicted in one of three forms: a man-headed bull, a bull-headed man with the body of a serpent-like fish from the waist down, or…
John William Waterhouse A Naiad or Hylas with a Nymph, 1893
Undine, by John William Waterhouse
Gioacchino Pagliei - The Naiads, 1881
Fountain of the Naiads, 1888, Piazza della Repubblica, Rome