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(Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess
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tethys
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Greek mythology , Tethys (; ), was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia , and the wife of her brother Titan Oceanus , and the mother by him of the river gods and the Oceanids . Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology, and no established cults.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tethys \Te"thys\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? an oyster, or ? a kind of ascidian.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name for the sea that anciently lay between Eurasia and Africa-Arabia, coined 1893 by German geologist Eduard Suess (1831-1914), from Tethys , name of a Greek sea goddess, sister and consort of Oceanus.
Usage examples of tethys.
Now a great belt of semiarid scrub spread around the old track of the Tethys, across North America, southern Eurasia, and northern Africa.
New oceans would be born in a great cross shape: Eventually the Atlantic would separate the Americas from Africa and Eurasia, while the mighty equatorial Tethys would separate Europe and Asia from Africa, India, Australasia.
They were facing the mighty Tethys Sea, which had forced its way westward between the separating continental blocks.
India and Africa were both migrating north, but for now the Tethys Sea still girdled the equator, a mighty current that spread warmth around the belly of the planet.
But as the continents closed, the Edenic flow of the Tethys was doomed, though fragments of the shrinking ocean would survive as the Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas, and in the west as the Mediterranean.
In fact, he was not very far from the place where a clever dinosaur called Listener, long ago, had stood at the shore of Pangaea and gazed out on the mighty Tethys Sea.
But if Listener had seen the birth of the Tethys, Capo was witnessing something like its death.
As the ocean levels dropped, this last fragment of the Tethys had become dammed at Gibraltar.
River Tethys and to know why I now knew that the old man was far gone into senility.
The River Tethys had been a less-traveled route, but still important for bulk commerce and the countless pleasure boats that had floated effortlessly from world to world on the single highway of water.
The River Tethys had changeable connections, and any data about the next world on the line has evidently been lost to us.
They had levitation barges then, but not everyone going down the Tethys would have been in one.
The portals are the same as the ones along the remnants of the Tethys today, but who is to say that the TechnoCore did not have other portals .
As an ex-bargeman, I cursed my stupidity for letting us be out here in the middle of such a wide river -- the Tethys had opened up to the better part of a klick wide again -- without lightning rod or rubber mats.
The Mare Infinitus segment of the Tethys will be omitted from the tour if inclement weather or dangerous sea-life conditions prevail.