Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Borysthenes" | Arab | The Scythian river god of Borysthenes, now called the Dneiper. |
Goddess name "Briant" | Britain | Goddess of the river which holds her name. Britain |
"Bugarik" | Assam / Garos | A lovely river siren with the body and arms of a woman, but no legs. Her head floats on the current and she will kill anyone she catches. |
Goddess name "Buk" | Neur / Sudan | The goddess of rivers & streams |
Goddess name "Buk" | Nuer / Sudan | River goddess. A guardian against attack by crocodiles, she is invoked by the sacrifice of a goat. Known as the daughter of the fireflies.... |
Goddess name "Buk Neur" | Sudan | Goddess of rivers and streams Sudan |
"Caicus" | Greek | Two mythical personages, one a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys (Theogony of Hesiod 343), and the other a son of Hermes and Ocyrrhoe, who threw himself into the river Astraeus, henceforth called Caicus. Greek |
King name "Camilla" | Roman | Of the Volsci was the daughter of king Metabus and Casmilla. Driven from his throne, Metabus was chased into the wilderness by armed Volsci, his infant daughter in his hands. The river Amasenus blocked his path, and, fearing for the child's welfare, Metabus bound her to a spear. He promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant, a warrior virgin. He then safely threw her to the other side, and swam across to retrieve her. Roman |
Goddess name "Candit" | Sudan | The goddess of rivers and streams and the source of life. Sudan |
God name "Cebren" | Greek | A Greek river-god (an Oceanid), whose river was located near Troy. He was the son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and he was the father of Asterope, Hesperia, who are sometimes considered to be each other, and Oenone. The city Cebrene (also spelled Kebrene or Kevrin) was named for Cebren. Greek |
"Cephissus" | Greek | The divinity of the river Cephissus, is described as a son of Pontus and Thalåśśa, and the father of Diogeneia and Narcissus, who is therefore called Cephisius. Greek |
Goddess name "Chalchiuhtlcue" | Aztec | A goddess Rain & storms, violence, vitality, lakes, whirlpools, rivers, water , love, beauty & youth Don't make this one mad whatever you do. |
"Charon" | Greek | A son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead - though only of those whose bodies were buried across the rivers of the lower world. Greek |
"Clairm'e" | Haiti | River loa Haiti / Vodun |
Goddess name "Clairmezin'e" | Haiti | Goddess of rivers Haiti |
Goddess name "Clota" | British | Goddess and namesake of the River Clyde British / Welsh / Scotland |
Hero name "Cocytus" | Greek | Meaning river of wailing or lamentation, was the river in the underworld on the banks of which the dead who could not pay Charon wandered, according to most accounts, for one hundred years. It flowed into the river Acheron, across which lay Hades, the mythological abode of the dead. Greek |
God name "Condatis" | Roman / British | God of confluence whose sacred places were wherever two rivers or bodies of water met. Roman / British |