Definitions for Oceanus
oʊˈsi ə nəsoceanus

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1. Oceanusnoun

   (Greek mythology) god of the stream that flowed around the earth in ancient mythology

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1. Oceanusnoun

   Personification of vast waters or the world ocean. He was the first-born of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia, the god u03A9u03BAu03B5u03B1u03BDu03CCu03C2 u03A0u03BFu03C4u03B1u03BCu03CCu03C2 (River Ocean) that encircled the earth. With his sister Tethys fathered all rivers and the Oceanids.

2. Etymology: From Ὠκεανός (Okeanos).

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1. Oceanus

   In Greek mythology, Oceanus (; Greek: Ὠκεανός, Ancient Greek pronunciation: /ɔːke.anós/, also Ὠγενός [ɔːgenós], Ὤγενος [ɔ́ːgenos], or Ὠγήν [ɔːgɛ́ːn]) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.

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1. oceanus

   In Greek mythology, Oceanus is a Titan, the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). He represents the world's ocean, the great river encompassing the world, and is often depicted as a muscular man with a long beard and horns, clothed in seaweed. His wife and sister is Tethys, and together they have three thousand daughters known as ocean nymphs or Oceanids.

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1. Oceanus

   Oceanus was a pseudo-geographical feature in classical antiquity, believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the divine personification of the World Ocean, an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Oceanus was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere. In Greek mythology, this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaea. In Hellenistic and Roman mosaics, this Titan was often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns and the lower body of a serpent. On a fragmentary archaic vessel of circa 580 BC, among the gods arriving at the wedding of Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis, is a fish-tailed Oceanus, with a fish in one hand and a serpent in the other, gifts of bounty and prophecy. In Roman mosaics, such as that from Bardo he might carry a steering-oar and cradle a ship. Some scholars believe that Oceanus originally represented all bodies of salt water, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the two largest bodies known to the ancient Greeks. However, as geography became more accurate, Oceanus came to represent the stranger, more unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean, while the newcomer of a later generation, Poseidon, ruled over the Mediterranean.

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1. Oceanus

   or Okeanos, in the Greek mythology the great world-stream which surrounds the whole earth, and is the parent source of all seas and streams, presided over by a Titan, the husband of Tethys, and the father of all river-gods and water-nymphs. He is the all-father of the world, as his wife is the all-mother, and the pair occupy a palace apart on the extreme verge of the world.

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1. Oceanus

   (Oce′anus), son of Coelus and Terra, and husband of Tethys. Several mythological rivers were called his sons, as Alpheus, Peneus, etc., and his daughters were called the Oceanides. Some of the ancients worshiped him as the god of the seas, and invariably invoked his aid when they were about to start on a voyage. He was also thought to personify the immense stream which it was supposed surrounded the earth, and into which the sun and moon and other heavenly bodies sank every day.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Oceanus in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Oceanus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Oceanus
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oceanus
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanus
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Oceanus
6. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Oceanus
7. ^ Mythology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42474/pg42474-images.html#:~:text=Oceanus