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- fresh water and irrigation, in opposition to Oceanus, god of the enormous river which was believed in classical antiquity to circle the world. However ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Titans), his wife Rhea (mother of the Olympians), Oceanus (the "world-ocean" which surrounds the universe), his wife Tethys (mother of the ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Shelley Dawicki, [https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/tsunamis-in-the-caribbean-its-possible/?id=3964 Tsunamis in the Caribbean? It's Possible ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 70 percent of the ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- blessed island at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean. They are sometimes called the “Western Maidens,” the “Daughters of Evening ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- [http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=14448 Voyage Takes a Census of Life in the Sea], OCEANUS. Retrieved November 12, 2008. ...14 KB (2,235 words) - 14:52, 2 May 2023
- In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. The Titans (Greek: ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- of the heavenly Mt. Olympus. Parallels between Oceanus or Poseidon to Yam have also been noted. Finally, the story of Yam and Baal is also seen ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- is led into the water, surrounded by the god Oceanus and sea nymphs. Vermaseren argues that Christian portrayals on sarcophagi of the soul’s ascension ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- One of the initial namings was Septentrionalis Oceanus, or Northern ... Mare, Occidentale Mare, Occidentalis Oceanus. By the late nineteenth ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- wild beasts. And give me sixty daughters of Oceanus for my choir – all nine years old, all maidens yet ungirdled; and give me for handmaidens twenty ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- ” In England, Challis put forth the name “Oceanus,” particularly appropriate for a seafaring people. In France, Arago suggested that the new ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- such as Johann Homann featured an extensive "Oceanus Septentrionalis" at the northern edge of their charts. The few expeditions to penetrate ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- Works of St. Jerome, Letter LXIX. To Oceanus]. (The Christian Literature Publishing Company) CCEL.org. Retrieved July 3, 2023. more enduringly ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- and one child was born at sea, and named "Oceanus." Bradford, History, chapter 8-9 ===Arrival in America=== Land was sighted on November ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 20:39, 9 April 2023
- 5 were in the Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum). The final site selection was based on seven criteria: * The site needed to be smooth, with ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
