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ˈti θɪstethys

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Tethysnoun

    (Greek mythology) a Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus

  2. Aplysia, genus Aplysia, Tethys, genus Tethusnoun

    type genus of the family Aplysiidae

Wiktionary

  1. Tethysnoun

    Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.

  2. Tethysnoun

    A large ocean which formerly lay between Eurasia and Africa.

  3. Tethysnoun

    A moon of Saturn.

  4. Etymology: From Τηθύς.

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  1. tethys

    Tethys generally refers to two different entities: 1) In Greek mythology, it refers to Tethys, a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia and the aquatic sea goddess who was the mother of all rivers. She was also the wife of her brother, Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids. 2) In astronomy, Tethys is the name of one of the moons of Saturn. It was discovered in 1684 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and is also known as Saturn III. It is named after the titan Tethys of Greek mythology. It is composed of water ice with a small fraction of rock, and has a deep, wide basin at one of the poles, which gives it a distinctive look.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tethysnoun

    a genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored

Wikidata

  1. Tethys

    In Greek mythology, Tethys, daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titaness and aquatic sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry, but not venerated in cult. Tethys was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the world known to the Greeks, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. Considered as an embodiment of the waters of the world she also may be seen as a counterpart of Thalassa, the embodiment of the sea. Although these vestiges imply a strong role in earlier times, Tethys plays virtually no part in recorded Greek literary texts, or historical records of cults. Walter Burkert notes the presence of Tethys in the episode of Iliad XIV that the Ancients called the "Deception of Zeus", where Hera, to mislead Zeus, says she wants to go to Oceanus, "origin of the gods" and Tethys "the mother". Burkert sees in the name a transformation of Akkadian tiamtu or tâmtu, "the sea," which is recognizable in Tiamat. Alternatively, her name may simply mean "old woman"; certainly it bears some similarity to ἡ τήθη, meaning "grandmother", and she is often portrayed as being extremely ancient.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Tethys

    in the Greek mythology a daughter of Uranus and Gaia, wife of Oceanus (q. v.), and mother of the river-gods.

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  1. tythes

  2. stythe

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tethys in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tethys in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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  1. Matija Cuk:

    But that fact allows us to use computer simulations to tease out the history of Saturn’s inner moons, doing so, we find that they were most likely born during the most recent 2 percent of the planet’s history. Related : Saturn's largest moon Titan is bursting with color Researchers had long thought Saturn’s rings were as old as the planet itself. But that thinking changed in 2012, when French astronomers found that tidal effects – the gravitational interaction of the inner moons with fluids deep in Saturn’s interior – are causing them to spiral to larger orbital radii comparatively quickly. The implication, given their present positions, is that these moons, and presumably the rings, are not so old. That still did n’t answer exactly when they were born. Cuk and his team turned to results from NASA’s Cassini mission, which has observed ice geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Assuming that the energy powering these geysers comes directly from tidal interactions and that Enceladus ’ level of geothermal activity is more or less constant, then the tides within Saturn are quite strong. According to the team’s analysis, these would move the satellite by the small amount indicated by the simulations in only about 100 million years. Related : Cassini probe takes' cosmic bulls-eye' of Saturn moons Enceladus, Tethys This would date the formation of the major moons of Saturn, with the exception of more distant Titan and Iapetus, to the relatively recent Cretaceous Period, the era of the dinosaurs.

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