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List of Gods : "Mermaid" - 10 records

Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
Goddess name
"Atargatis"
Asia Minor Ocean Mermaid a Goddess of Creation and Fertility. She was usually depicted with a fish tail; hence her modern identification as the Mermaid Goddess Known to the Romans as Dea Syria. She was worshipped by men performing auto-castration. Asia Minor
Goddess name
"Avfruvva"
Finland Mermaid goddess of Finland
Goddess name
"Derceto"
Greek Goddess of fertility and mermaids. Greek
Goddess name
"Jamaina"
Brazil Goddess of the ocean and is often represented as a mermaid. Brazil
Goddess name
"Leukothea"
Greco - Roman Sea goddess. Popular around the coasts of the Mediterranean with fishing communities. A mermaid who was originally Ino, a mortal daughter of Kadmos. She was wet nurse to DIONYSOS (BACCHUS), but became mad and threw herself in the sea with her son Melikertes. In another version of the story she was escaping the wrath of Athamas, king of Thebes. The gods elevated her to the status of goddess and her son became the god PALAEMON....
Spirit name
"Mermaid"
Arabic A sea-spirit, the upper part a woman and the lower half a fish.

"Merrow"
Irish A mermaid, believed by Irish fishermen to forebode a coming storm. There are male merrows, but no word to designate them.

"Moruadh"
Ireland Irish mermaids, they resemble human women but with webbed hands and fin-like feet. Ireland
God name
"Morva signifies Locus Maritimus"
Britain Morva signifies Locus Maritimus. Sea-women and sea-daughters. "The fishermen who were the ancestors of the Church, came from the Galilean waters to haul for men. We, born to God at the font, are children of the water. Therefore, all the early symbolism of the Church was of and from the sea. The carvure of the early arches was taken from the sea and its creatures. Fish, dolphins, mermen, and mermaids abound in the early types, transferred to wood and stone."' cornwall, Britain
Goddess name
"Thetis"
Greek Goddess of rivers and oceans. One of the daughters of NEREUS, Thetis takes responsibility, with OKEANOS, for the oceans and rivers. She is among the lesser known deities; according to mythology she is a mermaid, but she is particularly significant as the mother of Achilles by an unnamed mortal. According to legend she attempted to render him immortal by immersing him in the waters of the Styx. She failed because the heel by which she held him had remained dry. His education she entrusted to the centaur Chiron. She was surrounded by attendant sea creatures known as Nereids and after Achilles's death she returned to the ocean depths....