Oceanus
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Greek The Titan son of Gaia and
Uranus and the brother and husband of the Titan
Tethys; father of all the Oceanids and all the rivers
and seas of the world. Like many ancient peoples, the
Greeks believed that water encircled the world. They
called this water Oceanus. Oceanus was represented
sometimes as a serpent encircling the Earth, its tail
in its mouth, or as an old man with a long beard and
with a Bull's horns upon his head. With the ascendancy
of worship of the Olympian Gods, Poseidon
became the lord of the seas and rivers while Oceanus
retired into oblivion, though his name was still used
to denote the vast waters that stretched beyond the
known world of the ancients.
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- Menoetius Greek A second-generation Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene, who was a daughter of Oceanus; brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
- Metis (Wisdom) Greek A Titan, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, an Oceanid, or ocean Nymph, who was counted among the Titans.
- Neda Greek One of the oldest of the Oceanids, sea Nymph daughters of the Titan gods, Oceanus and Tethys; considered by many Greek writers to be a second-generation Titan.
- Nereids Greek The Nymphs of the sea, specifically the Mediterranean Sea; the daughters of Nereus, an ancient sea god, and Doris, a daughter of Oceanus.
- Oceanids (Oceanides) Greek The many daughters of the two Titan deities, Oceanus, the ancient god of water, and his wife and sister, Tethys.