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Oceanus 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.

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Oceanus 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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