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Ophion

In some versions of Greek mythology, Ophion ( "serpent"; gen.: Ὀφίωνος), also called Ophioneus ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea.

Usage examples of "ophion".

Instead she and Ophion were the sole inhabitants of these thousand rooms.

Alalkomeneus and the expedition through the tunnel of Ophion to the secret room of Thanatos.

In size and speed, Ophion reminded Bill and Cirocco of the Mississippi, but with more vegetation and tall trees along the banks.

Calvin had found Gene following the Ophion through steep terrain as it wound its way among the Nemesis Mountains of Crius, the day region just west of Rhea.

That there are times when one must go hungry, or when the mighty Ophion is swallowed in dust, or the cold wind from the west freezes us-these things I accept, as I doubt I could do a better job with these matters.

His goal was to head her toward Ophion, where it flowed beneath the cable joining the Place of Winds to the hub.

She thought of Ophion, the circular river, as the toilet of Gaea and of herself as the plumber.

Formerly, the canyon had possessed a distinctly odd feature: the river Ophion did not flow out of it into the flatlands to the west, but in the other direction.

The water, with no place to go, had turned Ophion into a clear blue lake that filled the canyon and backed up onto the plains of Hyperion.

For three million years they had mindlessly straddled Ophion, lifting its waters over the West Rhea Summit.

For part of its length Ophion became more lake than river, extending a finger of swamp from the central vertical cable terminus into the northeast.

Travelers on Ophion often remarked on the feeling of timelessness the river gave them.

As ancient as Gaea herself, Ophion was an infant beside the great rivers of Earth.

Elsewhere on its 4,000-kilometer circumference, Ophion was as frisky as the Colorado.

Now they were a few minutes from the confluence of Ophion with the river Melpomene.