Crossword clues for oceanid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oceanid \Oceanid\ prop. n. (Greek mythology) A daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
Syn: sea nymph.
Wikipedia
In Greek mythology and, later, Roman mythology, the Oceanids (; ) are sea nymphs who were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Each was the patroness of a particular spring, river, sea, lake, pond, pasture, flower or cloud. Some of them, such as Clymene, Asia, Electra and Ozomene, were closely associated with the Titan gods or personified abstract concepts ( Tyche, Peitho).
One of these many daughters was also said to have been the consort of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite. More often, however, she is called a Nereid.
Oceanus and Tethys also had 3,000 sons, the river-gods Potamoi (Ποταμοί, "rivers"). Whereas most sources limit the term Oceanids or Oceanides to the daughters, others include both the sons and daughters under this term.
Jean Sibelius wrote an orchestral tone poem called Aallottaret ( The Oceanides) in 1914.
Notable Oceanids include:
- Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed.
- Eurynome, Zeus' third wife, and mother of the Charites.
- Doris, the wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids.
- Callirhoe, the wife of Chrysaor and mother of Geryon.
- Clymene, the wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
- Electra, wife of Thaumas and mother of Iris and the Harpies
- Perseis, wife of Helios and mother of Circe and Aeetes.
- Idyia, wife of Aeetes and mother of Medea.
- Styx, goddess of the river Styx, and the wife of Pallas and mother of Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia.
Usage examples of "oceanid".
Treyas attempted to break the Transference with the oceanid, but his subconscious need for the information was too strong.
A red light, thin as a javelin, leaps from its right hand and plays across the Oceanid Sisters, making their flesh sizzle and pop.
Achilles only hopes that the Oceanid named Asia will start asking one of her endless questions again so he will have an excuse to gut her like a fish.
Rumor held that one of his intermediate consorts had not been entirely human, but rather an Oceanid or Nereid, called Idyia, Hecate, or Nearea, in various versions of the story.
Asia, one of the Oceanides, is the wife of Prometheus--she was, according to other mythological interpretations, the same as Venus and Nature.
Tethys, wife of Oceanus, their children being the Oceanides and river-gods.
She needs to talk to King Barr about having the oceanids search for it.
He pulled the elf to his feet and wrapped a heavy blanket across his shoulders, then glared at the oceanids in open hostility.
Still, if the oceanids did not arrive soon, Treyas planned to leave, Triskelion or no.
It does not surprise the Achaean in the least that Oceanids and the formless spirit in the murk down here in Tartarus speak his form of Greek to one another.
The Oceanids are cowering, covering their heads as if from hot ashfall.
Tartarus, his lungs burn so fiercely, his eyes are watering and hurting so much, his skin and guts feel like they are ready simultaneously to implode and explode from the pressure, the Oceanids monster-woman is carrying him so rib-shattering tightly in her thigh-fingered fist, and his outlook for the future is so fucking dim, that he wishes that he could just die and get it over with.