Geography/Culture: Greek: perhaps especially Aeolian.
Description: Both Thetis and Tethys are derived from tithenai, 'to dispose, to order'.
Description: Great Shapeshifting Creatrix of the universe; Mother of Deities and of all living creatures; She of the silver feet; Goddess of the night, the moon and the wet element, especially the sea; She Who is the vast sea itself and its ruler; Guardian of womanhood.
To Whom Sacred: wryneck; sea-food regarded as an aphrodisiac; hippocampus (mythical sea-beast: foreparts: horse - rearparts: fish or dragon); cauldron (of immortality); the planet Venus; the number 8.
Her forms as shapeshifter: fire; water; lion; snake; cuttle-fish.
Male Associates: consort, Peleus, ----. Hero son, Achilles, ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Aphrodite, qv, Froth-of-Replication, as creatrix and sea Goddess.
• Aeolian Greeks called Carmenta, (qv), Thetis, Disposer.
• The title of Her chief-priestess was Dia, qv Dione.
• Alternate name for, or Daughter of, Doris, below.
• Probably also called Endeis, below.
• Also called Eurybia, Wide-Strength, Who is linked with Eurynome, Wide-Wandering.
• She is served by a college of priestesses for whom the wryneck (qv Lynx, under Echo), is the totem bird.
• Some say Mother, or Herself one, of the Nereides, Wet-Ones, below.
• Also called Nereis, below.
• Some say Tethys, Disposer, is a language variant, but see below.
• Title: Thea, qv Theia.

Geography/Culture: Greek: especially the island of Ogygia.
Linguistic Note: Greek: kappa-alpha-lambda-upsilon-psi-omega (kalypso), from kappa-alpha-lambda-upsilong-pi-tau-omega, (kalypto), 'to cover'. Said to have been so called because She hid Ulysses.
Description: A sea nymph.
To Whom Sacred: {orchid calypso bulbosa (having a pinkish flower with slipper-shaped lip)}; {calypso (the type of music originating in Trinidad)}; the number seven (She delayed Odysseus on Her island for seven years).
Male Associates: Odysseus; Ulysses (whom She hid on his return from Troy); father, Atlas.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• One of the Nereides, Wet-Ones, below.

Geography/Culture: Greek: Dorian.
Description: Goddess of the sea; Ancestress of the Dorians.
Male Associates: brother/consort, Nereus. Lover{?}, Oceanus.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is also called, or has the title: Eurybia, Wide-Strength, Who is linked with Eurynome, Wide-Wandering.
• Some say Mother of, (by Oceanus), some say Herself one of, the Nereides, Wet-Ones, below.
• Doris, Bountiful, is One of the Oceanides, below, (ie Daughter of Tethys, Disposer).
• Mother of, or Daughter of, or alternate name for Thetis, Disposer, above.

Geography/Culture: Greek: especially the island of Aegina. Perhaps originally Cretan.
Linguistic Note: endeis is a synonym for 'cuttle-fish'.
To Whom Sacred: cuttle-fish; {sepia ink (obtained from cuttle-fish)}; the number 8 (symbol of fertility in the Mediterranean - cuttle-fish have eight arms).
Male Associates: sons, Peleus and Telemon by consort Aeacus; Crisus, Naubolus and Panopaeus by consort Phocus.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps title of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication.
• Daughter of Chariclo, qv Theia.
• Alternate name for, or title of Thetis, Disposer, above.

Geography/Culture: Greek: especially, or only, of the Mediterranean.
Description: Multiple Goddess of the serene and smiling sea.
Although in classical literature They were conceived of as fifty semi-divine spirits of the ocean, the name may also, or originally, have referred to any college of fifty priestesses of Thetis, Disposer, or Doris, Bountiful.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Daughters of Doris, Who is Herself called a Nereid, Wet-One.
• Nereis, (below), is probably a singular form of the Nereides, i.e. a title of Thetis, or Doris their Mother.
• Variant: Nereids.

Geography/Culture: Greek.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Transliteration variant Kallianeira.
• One of the Nereides, Wet-Ones.

Geography/Culture: Greek.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• One of the Nereides, Wet-ones.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Description: Goddess of waters and the wet element.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A title of Eurybia, Wide-Strength, Who is linked with Eurynome, Wide-Wandering.
• Alternate name for Thetis, Disposer, above.
• Perhaps the name by which Thetis is known as one of the Nereides, Wet-Ones.

Geography/Culture: Greek.
Linguistic Note: from Greek Omega-kappa-epsilon-alpha-nu-iota-nu-eta, (Okeanine), 'daughter of Ocean', but Graves translates Oceanus as 'of the Swift Queen', though elsewhere he derives Tethys and Thetis from the same source and translates both as Disposer.
Description: Three-thousand (some say or four-thousand) shapeshifting Nymph Goddesses of the great Ocean.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The Great Goddess Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, was in late times reduced to an Oceanid, {Daughter-of-the-Swift-Queen}.
• Some say Medea, qv, is the Daughter of one of the Oceanides.
• Singular: Oceanid, {Daughter-of-the-Swift-Queen}.
• Variant: Oceanids.
• Styx, (qv Victoria), was the Eldest.
• Daughters of Tethys, Disposer.

Geography/Culture: Greek?
Linguistic Note: Probably a variant of Thetis, see Her linguistic notes, and see also Oceanides linguistic notes.
Description: Creatrix; Goddess of the sea; Mother of all rivers, fountains and streams.
To Whom Sacred: the planet Venus.
Male Associate: consort Oceanus, Of-the-Swift-Queen.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Aphrodite, Froth-of-Replication, as Creatrix and Sea Goddess.
• Mother of Electra, qv.
• Some say Daughter of Eurynome, Wide-Wandering, by Titan {is this as the sun god?}.
• Titanis Daughter of Gaia, Earth.
• Some say Mother of Helene.
• Some say Mother of the Hyades.
• Some say Mother of the Nereides, Wet-Ones, above.
• Some say mother of the Oceanides, {Daughter-of-the-Swift-Queen}, above.
• In Asia Minor Her worship may have been surplanted by that of Sarah.
• Epithet: Thea, Goddess, Who is linked with Theia.
• A Titanis, Daughter of Gaia, Earth, qv Fata-Morgana.