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A water deity is a
deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water. Water
deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among
civilizations in which the sea or ocean was more important.
Aztec
Atl god of water in Aztec mythology (Central
Mexico)
Atlaua god of fishermen in Aztec mythology
Chalchiuhtlatonal god of water in Aztec mythology
Balkan
Rodon god of the sea in Illyrian mythology
(Balkans)
Britain
Dylan Eil Ton sea god in Welsh mythology
(pre-Christian Britons)
Arnemetia water goddess in British mythology
Manannán mac Lir (Irish)
Manawydan (Welsh)
Llyr (Welsh)
German folklore/Scandinavian folklore
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Greek
Anapos (water god of eastern Sicily in Greek
mythology)
Asopus river god in Greek mythology, and father to
river nymph Aegina
Crinaeae (fountains)
Doris goddess of the Mediterranean Sea, wife of Nereus
and mother of the Nereids
in Greek mythology
Eleionomae (marshes)
Helead (fen)
Hydros god of freshwater in Greek mythology
Limnades/Limnatides (lakes)
Naiads (usually fresh water)
 Neptune/
Poseidon
god of the sea in
Roman and Greek
mythology
Nereids (daughters of Nereus, the Mediterranean Sea)
Nereus god of the Mediterranean Sea, shape-shifter,
fortune-teller, and son of Gaia
and Pontus in Greek mythology
Oceanus and Tethys
Oceanids (daughters of Oceanus and Tethys,
any water but usually salt water)
Pegaeae (springs)
Phorcys (Phorkys), son of Pontus and Gaia
Poseidon (Greek) and Neptune (Roman)
Proteus early sea god in Greek mythology, he may be
either a son of Poseidon, or of
Oceanus and a Naiad
Pontus pre-Olympian sea god in Greek mythology, and son
of Gaia (earth) and Aether (air)
Potameides (rivers)
Trition god of the sea and messenger of the deep in
Greek mythology, son of Poseidon and
Amphrite, and though to be a merman
Hindu
Saraswati goddess of knowledge in Hinduism, originally
a river goddess (the Saraswati
River was named after her)
Irish
Manannán mac Lir sea and weather god in Irish
mythology
Boann goddess of the River Boyne in Irish mythology
Inuit
Aipaloovik
Alignak god of tides in Inuit mythology (Siberia,
Greenland and Alaska)
Arnapkapfaaluk
Idliragijenget
Sedna
Tootega goddess that walked on water in Inuit mythology
Italy
Nethuns god of wells in Etruscan mythology (Italy)
Lithuanian mythology
Bangputys
Maori mythology
Tangaroa
Native America
Untunktahe water god with great magical powers in
Native America (Lakota) mythology
Norse
Rán, goddess who collects the drowned in a net
Njórd, seagod who lives at Nóatun
Portugal
Duberdicus god of water in Lusitanian mythology
(Portugal)
Shinto
Susanoo
Sumeria
Enki god of the freshwater ocean of groundwater
under the earth in Sumerian mythology
(also referred to as Ea)
Abzu - water lord in Sumerian mythology that threatens
to take back the creation of men
by a universal flood, but is
imprisoned beneath the earth by Enki (Mesopotamia)
Ninhursag - goddess of the waters and consort of Enki
in Sumerian mythology
Tonga (Zambizi Valley Zimbabwe)
Nyami Nyami
Vedic religion
Varuna (celestial ocean)
Various rivers associated with goddesses in the Rigveda, such as Sarasvati
(Sarasvati River) and Yamuna
Yoruba religion/Afro-American religions
Yemaja
Mami Wata
River Gods
Achelous, Acheron, Aeas,
Aegaeus, Aesepus, Almo, Alpheus, Amphrysos, Apidanus,
Ardescus, Asopus, Asterion,
Axius
Caicus, Cayster, Cebren, Cephissus, Chremetes,
Cladeus or Kladeos, Clitunno (Roman
mythology), Cocytus, Cratais
Crinisus, Cydnos
Enipeus, Erasinus, Eridanus, Euphrates, Evenus
Granicus
Haliacmon, Heptaporus, Hermus
Inachus, Istrus or Ister
Ladon
Meander, Mincius
Nessus, Nilus, Numicius, Nymphaeus
Pactolus, Parthenius, Phasis, Peneus
Rhesus, Rhine, Rhodius,
Sangarius, Scamander, Simoeis, Sperchius, Strymon
Termessus, Tiberinus (Roman mythology)
Chiron
in Greek mythology, one of the Centaurs, the son of the Titan Cronus and
Philyra, an
Oceanid or sea nymph. Chiron lived at the foot of Mount Pelion in
Thessaly.
Hyades
in Greek mythology, daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Aethra, the
five
(or more) sisters of the Pleiades who nursed the infant wine god,
Dionysus,...
Nymph
in Greek mythology, any of a large class of inferior female divinities. The
nymphs were usually associated with fertile, growing things, such as trees, or
with water.
Pleiades
in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid
Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope.
Nereus
In Greek religion, sea god called by Homer “Old Man of the Sea,” noted for
his wisdom, gift of prophecy, and ability to change his shape.
Atlas
in Greek mythology, son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene (or
Asia) and brother of Prometheus (creator of mankind). In Homer's Odyssey, Book
I, Atlas seems to have been a marine creature.
Io
in Greek mythology, daughter of Inachus (the river god of Argos) and the
Oceanid Melia. Under the name of Callithyia, Io was regarded as the first
priestess of Hera, the wife of Zeus.
They were not immortal but were extremely long-lived and were on the whole
kindly disposed toward men. They were distinguished according to the sphere of
nature with which they were connected. The Oceanids, for example, were sea
nymphs; the Nereids inhabited both saltwater and freshwater; the Naiads presided
over springs, rivers, and lakes
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