[[Oceanus]] is a figure of [[:Category:Greek mythology|Ancient Greek]] [[mythology|myth]]. This is a list of his consorts and children.
# With [[Gaia (mythology)|Gaia]]
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'''Mana Genita''' was a [[Roman mythology|Roman]] goddess who presided over burials. She was the mother or leader of the [[
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...ry:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] and [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], the '''Oceanids''' were the three thousand children of the Titans [[Ocea
# [[Asia (mythology)|Asia]] - Nymph of the Asian region, sister to Europe
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In Roman and Etruscan mythology, '''Mantus''' and his wife, [[Mania]] were gods of the underworld. They wer
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In [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]] '''Fauna''' was the mother goddess of earth, rural life, fields, cattle a
A Roman earth-mother and fertility goddess, usually referred to as the '''Bona Dea'
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...oved ones. As minor spirits, they were similar to the [[Lares]], [[Genius (mythology)|Genii]] and [[Di Penates]]. They were honored during the ''Parentalia'' a
...The Manes were also called the '''Di Manes''' (''Di'' meaning "Gods"), and Roman tombstones often included the letters ''D.M.'', which stood for ''dis manib
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In Roman and Etruscan mythology, '''Mania''' (or '''Manea''') was the goddess of the dead.
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...'') or '''lemures''' (singular ''lemur'') are spirits of the dead in Roman mythology.
Some Roman writers describe lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead
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'''Trivia''' in Roman mythology was the equivalent of the Greek goddess [[Hecate]], the goddess of witchcra
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The '''Fauns''' come from [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]] and are similar to the [[satyr]]. They are the children of the god Faunus
In [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], '''fauns''' are place-spirits (''genii'') of untamed woodland. Romans co
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...d '''[[Genius loci|Genii loci]]''' or, more archaically, '''Lases''') were Roman deities protecting the house and the family.
Lares are Roman guardian spirits of house and fields. The cult of the Lares is probably der
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In Greek and Roman mythology there are several creatures known as Aethon:
...ced him in Erysichthon's gut, making Erysichthon permanently famished. His Roman equivalent was Fames, a female deity.
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'''Faunus''' was a Roman god similar to [[Pan]].
===Roman Myth===
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==List by mythology==
===[[Aztec mythology]]===
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Nyphs are creatures in the Greek and Roman mythology.They have powers useualy from the element they surrond. Not consided gods.
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In Basque mythology, '''Mairu''' (pl: mairuak) or '''intxisu'''(ak), refer to giants who built
...(Spanish: moros encantados), who are thought to be the remnant of old pre-Roman deities.
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In Roman mythology, '''Orcus''' was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths.
...gins of Orcus may have lain in Etruscan religion. Orcus was a name used by Roman writers to identify a Gaulish god of the underworld. The so-called "Tomb of
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...mythology|Gaulish]] and (later) [[Roman mythology|Roman]] and Gallo-Roman mythology, '''Epona''' was the goddess of horses, donkeys, mules.
Although only known from Roman contexts, the name Epona is from the Celtic language Gaulish; it is derived
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...orse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology.
...i. 8; Stat. Theb. ii. 45.). In Hellenistic and Roman imagery, Poseidon (or Roman Neptune) as well as [[nereid]]s often drives a sea-chariot drawn by hippoca
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...words *bel-, "strong", or *bhel-, "to swell". It is considered to be a pre-Roman conquest word from the Romanian substratum.
[[Category:Romanian mythology]]
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In Armenian mythology, '''Anahit''' (Armenian: Անահիտ) was the goddess of fertility, healin
...xpedition of Marc Antony in Armenia, Anahit’s statue was torn to pieces by Roman soldiers. Then, the Armenians built a new golden statue of Anahit at Erez t
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In Greek mythology, '''Cacus''' was a fire-breathing monster and the son of Vulcan. It lived i
...to the giant described above. According to the Romans, after Hercules (the Roman Heracles) killed Cacus, he founded an altar, the Ara Maxima, where later th
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Triton also appeared in Roman myths and epics. In the Aeneid, Misenus, the trumpeter of Aeneas, challenge
[[Category:Greek mythology]]
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'''Satyrs''' in [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] are woodland creatures depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and sho
===Greek mythology and art===
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...h in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship.
...px|Oceanus, with his wife, [[Tethys]], ruled the seas before [[Poseidon]]. Roman mosaic from Zeugma, c. 1st–2nd centuries AD]]
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...l and Britain and mentioned, along with [[Essus]] and [[Toutatis]], by the Roman poet Lucan in his epic poem ''Pharsalia'' as a Celtic deity to whom sacrifi
...ry:Norse mythology|Norse]] [[Thor]], [[Ambisagrus]], the [[:Category:Irish mythology|Irish]] [[Tuireann]] and the Culdee saint Taran. The name Taranis has not y
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In [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], '''Cronus''' (Ancient Greek '''Κρόνος'''—of obscure etymolog
...lso identified in classical antiquity with the [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman deity]] [[Saturn]].
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[[Category: Roman mythology]]
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...h Anubis (Egyptian mythology). Hermanubis was popular during the period of Roman domination over Egypt. He is the son of Osiris and Nephthys.
[[Category: Egyptian mythology]]
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The '''zana e malit''' is a mythical creature in Albania mythology.
...ry of the mountain". The plural form of “zana” is “zanë”, a term from pre-Roman Paleo-Balkan origin. It is also associated to Latin Diana and Bardha.
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...is a figure from Greek mythology, her story being one of many examples in mythology used to explain naturally occuring phenomenon - in this instance, the chang
...al variations of her name include: Persephassa, Persephatta, and, in Roman mythology, Proserpina.
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In Greek mythology the '''Ichthyocentaur''' is a fish-centaur, or a particular kind of Triton.
The Sea-Centaurs were probably derived from the divine Fish of Syrian mythology which carried Ashtarte ashore following her watery-birth. These were set am
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...was getting deserted. St Clément, (IIId century after Christ), went to the Roman amphitheatre where Graouli dwelt and bound it with his scarve to drive him
[[Category:French mythology]]
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 26 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
[[Category: Hindu mythology]]
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'''Longinus''' is the name given in Christian tradition to a Roman soldier who pierced [[Jesus]] on his side while he was on the Cross.
...tells his life before and after the event, from a pagan son of a member of Roman nobility, through him being sold as a slave, to a converted christian. Thou
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*[[Adramelech]] ([[Assyrian]] mythology)
*[[Af]] ([[Jewish mythology]])
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In [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], a '''nymph''' is any member of a large class of female nature entities,
...venerated by country people in the springs and clefts of Latium. Among the Roman literate class their sphere of influence was restricted, and they appear al
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...religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion.
...Dusios is not described in late-antique sources independently of Greek and Roman deities, the common functionality of the others lay in their ability to imp
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In Greek mythology, Tethys (/ˈtiːθɪs, ˈtɛθɪs/; Ancient Greek: Τηθύς, romanized: T
[[Image:Tethys.jpg|thumb|Oceanus and Tethys, Greco-Roman mosaic C2nd A.D., Gaziantep Museum]]
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...Diagnosis." In ''Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine'', Studies in Ancient Medicine 27 (Brill, 2004), p. 19 [http://boo
[[Category: Babylonian mythology]]
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In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus) was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and en
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In the study of [[mythology]] and religion, the '''underworld''' is a generic term approximately equiva
===[[Akkadian mythology]]===
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Cognates with Roman ''[[strix]]'', Italian ''strega''; compare also Romanian ''strigă'' and Po
...s related to other witch/vampires such as the Romanian [[strigoi]] and the Roman [[strix]].
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
[[Category:Greek mythology]]
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In Greek mythology, '''Ipotanes''' were a race of half-horse, half-humans, unlike the satyrs,
[[Image:Silenus donkey CdM.jpg|thumb|right|Silenus, Roman bas-relief, late 1st century (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris]]
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...Madrid) 07.jpg|thumb|right|Heracles capturing the Cretan Bull. Detail of a Roman mosaic from Lliria, Spain]]
In Greek mythology, the '''Cretan Bull''' was either the bull that carried away Europa or the
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Also Norse mythology contains examples of [[necromancy]]: Odin summons a seeress from the dead t
*Ogden, Daniel, ''Greek and Roman Necromancy'' 2004. ISBN 0691119686
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'''Cernunnos''' in [[:Category:Celtic mythology|Celtic mythology]] is the deified [[spirit]] of horned male animals, especially of stags, a
...s Cernunnos and other Celtic deities alongside [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman divinities]] such as [[Jupiter]], [[Vulcan]], [[Castor]], and [[Pollux]].
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Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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