Okeanos

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Okeanos is the primordial Greek god personifying the great encircling river believed to surround the world.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Okeanos canonical 2
Longinqua Oceani 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf personification
primordial Greek god
associatedWith fresh water
sources of all rivers
sources of all seas
world’s outer ocean
boundaryRole separates the known world from the unknown
consort Tethys
contrastedWith Poseidon
cosmicFunction boundary of the known world
encircles the world
culture Ancient Greek religion
didNotJoin Titanomachy
domain oceans
rivers
seas
water
gender male
greekName Ὠκεανός
iconography horned, bearded figure with water attributes
latinName Oceanus
memberOf Titans
mentionedIn Hesiod's Theogony
surface form: Hesiod’s Theogony

Homer's Iliad
surface form: Homer’s Iliad

Homer's Odyssey
surface form: Homer’s Odyssey
numberOfDaughters 3000 (traditional)
numberOfSons 3000 (traditional)
offspring Oceanids
river gods
offspringWith Tethys
parents Gaia
Uranus
positionInMythology one of the earliest deities
role personification of the great encircling river
personification of the world-ocean
sibling Coeus
Crius
Cronus
Hyperion
Iapetus
Mnemosyne
Phoebe
Rhea
Tethys
Theia
Themis
symbol flowing water
river encircling the earth
type protogenos

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ourea sibling Okeanos
Adiutricem Populi follows Okeanos
this entity surface form: Longinqua Oceani
Koios siblingOf Okeanos