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Gods/Goddesses/Demigods * Aegir (Norse) - giant of the sea. His wife (or daughter) is Ran - the goddess of the sea. he had 9 daughters representing the waves. (NORSE.2) * Aihu-moana - a polynesian sea god - ancestor to Maori hero Paikea. (DPOLY.4) * Ceto - Greek goddess of the sea. Daughter of Gaea and Pontus. Mother of the Gorgons, scylla Ladon (the serpent dragon guarding the apples of Hesperides (DM.55) * Dagon - Philistine god of the sea. Fish tailed. A form of Babylonian sea god "Oammes". (source?) * Manannan - celtic sea god. sacred to Manannan was the hazel tree. (WDS.465) * Neptune - Italian/Roman god of water, rain and fertility. (DM.183) * Nereus - Sea god. Father of 50 Nereids (sea nymphs). He is a very old and wize creature. (DM.183) * Oannes - Babylonian sea god. (source?) * Oceanus - The father of the Oceanides. He is the Ocean. (DM.189) * Palaemon - sea god - as a child, he was called Melicertes. He and his mother lept into the sea to escape the mad husband and was transformed. (DM.170) (culture?) Seen as riding a dolphin and was invoked as a savior for people in shripwrecks. (DM.200) * Phorcys - Greek Sea god. Father to many monsters and horrors. (Graiae, gorgons, dragon Ladon, monster scylla) he had different lovers. (DM.215) * Pontus - Personification of the sea. (DM.219) * Portumnus - Roman protector god of ports and shores. (DM.200) * Poseidon - Greek. Son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. Originally god of earthquakes and water. Became the god of the sea. Seen as tempestuous, violent, vindictive. Rarely peaceful. Holds a trident. Accompanied by the nereids, tritons, and sea monsters. Also od or horses. (perhaps because the horse's mane waves like water in the wind) (DM.219) * Proteus - sea god and shape shifter. Also a seer. Would answer questions if one could hold onto him through the transformations. (DM.222) Also known as the "ancient one of the sea" or the "old man of the sea" * Ran - Daughter of wife of Aegir. Ran held a net. People drowned in the sea became fishes and went to her underwater realm instead of Hel of Valhall. had 9 daughters with Aegir representing the waves. (DM.2) (see afterlife) * Salacia - Italian/Roman goddess of the sea. Wife of Neptune. (DM.231) * Tethys - Daughter of Uranus and Gaea, wife/sister of Oceanus. She bore the rivers and 3000 Oceanides. (DM.250) * Triton - Sea god. Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Loved at the bottom of the sea. Then later the name applied to the Tritons. (DM.259) Creatures/Beings/People * Amphitrite - a nereid - had a golden palace at the depths of the sea. wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton. (DM.17) * Oceanides - nympgs of the ocean stream, flowing around the earth. (DM.189) * Tiamat - Babylonian primal dragon = her corpse is the bottomless sea whence all things came from. Tiamat was slayed by Marduke. Her body was made into the heaven and earth. (DM.256) * Tritons - derived from Triton. Depicted as a fish from the waist down, and a man from the waist up. Usually seen blowing conch shells as horns. (DM.259) * Waves - Aegir and Ran had 9 daughters representing the waves. Most of their names are wave synonyms, in fact, any other wave synonym could be used for their names) (NORTHM.2) according to Snorri, they are: ---* Bara ---* Blodughadda - Bloody-hair ---* Bylgja ---* Dúfa ---* Hefring - the rising one ---* Himinglaeva - "the heaven shining one" ---* Hronn ---* Kolga - "The cold one" ---* Odr Places, Geographical Elements * Vanaheim is the world of the sea in Norse myth. (WDS.71) Plants and Minerals * Hazel tree - sacred to Manannan, the celtic god of the sea. (WDS.465) Symbols and Objects * circle with horizontal line through it - alchemical symbol of salt (WDS.5) (see mother, water, earth) / associated with the sea. |