Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Carpathian Wizard Proteus" | Roman | Carpathian Wizard Proteus who lived in the island of Carpathos, between Rhodes and Crete. He was a wizard and prophet, who could transform himself into any shape he pleased. He is represented as carrying a sort of crook in his hand. Carpathos, now called Scarpanto. Roman |
"Eidothea" | Greek | A daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. Greek |
God name "Glaukos" | Greek | Sea god. Allegedly an impoverished fisherman who ate a sea-gråśś with magical properties, dived into the ocean and remained there as a guardian deity of fishermen and their nets.See also PROTEUS.... |
"Gorgophon" | Greek | wife of Proteus. |
Nymph name "Idothea aka Eidothea" | Greek | The nymph, a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. Greek |
God name "Nereus" | Greek | Minor sea god. The son of PONTOS and GAIA, and the father of the NEREIDES.See also PROTEUS.... |
"Proteus" | Greek | The prophetic old man of the sea, occurs in the earliest legends as a subject of Poseidon, and is described as seeing through the whole depth of the sea, and tending the flocks (the seals) of Poseidon. Greek |
God name "Proteus" | Greek | Minor sea god. Depicted as an old man who attends Triton and whose principal concern is the creatures of the oceans. He also has oracular powers. The poet cowper wrote: In ages past old Proteus, with his droves Of sea calves sought the mountains and the groves. Also known as GLAUKOS, NEREUS and PHORKYS.... |