Pontos
In the Greek Mythology, Pontos (in Greek old Πόντος / Póntos , “the flood”), wire of Gaïa (Earth) which it even generated from it or according to Hygin, of Gaïa and Éther (or Ouranos), is a primitive divinity, male personification of the Sea. It has at the majority of the authors during female in the person of Thalassa, the fertile Sea, although the latter is completely unknown of Hésiode.
Linked with his mother, it generates several paramount marine divinities: Nérée the old man , then Thaumas the marvellous , Phorcys the valorous , Céto animal-marine the and Eurybie vast violence . Bacchylide quotes also the Telchines, while Hygin tells that from Pontos and Thalassa are born the “various races from Poisson S”.
Sources
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(I, 2,6; I, 10).
- (I, 498).
- Bacchylide (france 52?).
- (v. 106-107, 126,130-132 and 233).
- ( Foreword ).
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