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List of Gods : "Palaemon" - 4 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
"Inous"	Greek	That is, the son of Ino, a name given to Melicertes and Palaemon. Greek
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....
"Palaemon"	Greek	Signifies the wrestler, as in the surname of Heracles in Lycophron but it also occurs as a proper name of several mythical personages.
God name "Palaemon"	Greco - Roman	Minor sea god. Originally Melikertes, the son of Ino, Palaemon was deified by the gods when his mother hurled herself from a cliff with her son in her arms. According to versions of the legend she was either insane or escaping the wrath of Athanas, king of Thebes....

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