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Oceanus and Tethys
** Oceanids ( daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, any water, usually salty )
Styx was also the name of the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
Uranus mated with Gaia to create twelve Titans: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetos, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys and Cronus ; three cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes and Arges ; and three Hecatonchires: Kottos, Briareos, and Gyges.
One child of Gaia and Pontus is Nereus ( Old Man of the Sea ), who marries Doris, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and has Nereids, the fifty nymphs of the sea, one of whom is Thetis.
In the family of the Titans, Oceanus and Tethys marry and have three thousand rivers ( including the Nile and Skamandar ) and three thousand Okeanid Nymphs ( including Electra, Calypso, and Styx ).
In Greek mythology, Metis ( Μῆτις, " wisdom ," " skill ," or " craft ") was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that Metis was born of Oceanus and Tethys, of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings.
The name Europa occurs in Hesiod's long list of daughters of primordial Oceanus and Tethys.
Oceanus ' consort is his sister Tethys, and from their union came the ocean nymphs, also known as the three-thousand Oceanids, and all the rivers of the world, fountains, and lakes.
From Cronus, of the race of Titans, the Olympian gods have their birth, and Hera mentions twice in Iliad book XIV her intended journey " to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Oceanus, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house.
Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris ( and thus a Nereid ), according to Hesiod's Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys ( and thus an Oceanid ), according to the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both of the Nereids and the Oceanids.
Some Greek sources say that he was the son of Gaia and Oceanus ; however, ancient Greeks generally believed with Hesiod that Tethys and Oceanus were the parents of all three thousand river gods.
* Nessus, an alternate name of Nestos ( god ), son of Oceanus and Tethys, and god of the river Nestos
* Perse, Persa or Perseis, an Oceanid, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology, wife of Helios
The Bibliotheca ( 3. 12. 6 ) informs that the river Asopus was a son of Oceanus and Tethys or according to Acusilaus of Poseidon by Pero ( otherwise unknown to us ) or according to yet others of Zeus by Eurynome, not making it clear whether he knows there is more than one river named Asopus.
Diodorus Siculus ( 4, 72 ) similarly presents Asopus ( here son of Oceanus and Tethys ) as a settler in Phlius and wife of Metope daughter of Ladon, presumably here and elsewhere the Arcadian river Ladon.
Like most river-gods, he is a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.
In Greek mythology, Peneus ( Πηνειός ) was a Thessalian river god, one of the three thousand Rivers ( Potamoi ), a child of Oceanus and Tethys.
Asia in Greek mythology was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
Liriope was loved by the river-god Cephissus, who was himself the son of Oceanus and Tethys, and bore his son Narcissus.
In Greek mythology and, later, Roman mythology, the Oceanids () were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
Oceanus and Tethys also had 3, 000 sons, the river-gods Potamoi
According to the Orphic hymns, Phorcys, Cronus and Rhea were the eldest offspring of Oceanus and Tethys.
In Greek mythology, Philyra ( Greek Φιλύρα ) was an Oceanid, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.

Oceanus and are
There are several versions of the birth of the winged stallion and his brother Chrysaor in the far distant place at the edge of Earth, Hesiod's " springs of Oceanus, which encircles the inhabited earth, where Perseus found Medusa:
Inscriptions are referring to " the Goddesses " accompanied by the agricultural god Triptolemos probably son of Ge and Oceanus.
" It is to Oceanus, not to Poseidon, that their thoughts are directed.
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides () are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean.
They were two brothers, but their names are given variously, Passalus and Acmon, Basalas and Achemon, Olus and Eurybatus, or Sillus and Triballus, depending on the context, but usually known as sons of Theia and Oceanus, thus ancient spirits.
A " mythical " people also named Cimmerians are described in Book 11, 14 of Homer's Odyssey as living beyond the Oceanus, in a land of fog and darkness, at the edge of the world and the entrance of Hades.
He was the son of Oceanus and Tethys and he was the father of Asterope, Hesperia, who are sometimes considered to be each other, and Oenone.
The Odyssey speaks of the land of dreams as past the streams of Oceanus, close to where the spirits of the dead are led ( Hades ).
However, the measurements from the gamma ray spectrometer on board this satellite showed that the KREEP-containing rocks are primarily concentrated underneath the Oceanus Procellarum and the Mare Imbrium.
The surface of this mare displays some swirling, higher albedo deposits that are similar to the Reiner Gamma feature on the Oceanus Procellarum.
For Crates, following the mere form of mathematical demonstration, says that the torrid zone is " occupied " by Oceanus and that on both sides of this zone are the temperate zones, the one being on our side, while the other is on the other side of it.
Now, just as these Ethiopians on our side of Oceanus, who face the south throughout the whole length of the inhabited land, are called the most remote of the one group of peoples, since they dwell on the shores of Oceanus, so too, Crates thinks, we must conceive that on the other side of Oceanus also there are certain Ethiopians, the most remote of the other group of peoples in the temperate zone, since they dwell on the shores of this same Oceanus ; and that they are in two groups and are " sundered in twain " by Oceanus.

Oceanus and father
In most variations of this myth, Oceanus also refused to side with Kronos in the latter's revolt against their father, Ouranos.
Invoked in passing by poets and figured as the father of rivers and streams, thus the progenitor of river gods, Oceanus appears only once in myth, as a representative of the archaic world that Heracles constantly threatened and bested.
In Greek mythology, Aeëtes ( also spelled Æëtes ) (), ( Laz and Georgian Aiet ' i, აიეტი ), was a King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus.
Chrysaor, married to Callirrhoe, daughter of glorious Oceanus, was father to the triple-headed Geryon, but Geryon was killed by the great strength of Heracles at sea-circled Erytheis beside his own shambling cattle on that day when Heracles drove those broad-faced cattle toward holy Tiryns, when he crossed the stream of Okeanos and had killed Orthos and the oxherd Eurytion out in the gloomy meadow beyond fabulous Okeanos.
* Aeëtes, King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus

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