| 单词 | river deity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver deity river deity n. (in a polytheistic religious system) a god or goddess presiding over a river. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of sea or river sea-god1565 sea-king1582 river god1595 sea-maid1600 river deity1613 ocean god1647 sea-goddess1710 ocean-king1725 sea-maiden1893 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. i. 561 Some imagined him to be Nilus the Riuer-deitie. 1718 N. Amhurst Strephon's Revenge 2 Two River-Deities on either Side Pour'd from their fruitful Urns the rushing Tide; Isis and Charwell , thro' the World renown'd. 1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Man. I. vi. 61 The crab, being perhaps at an early period made sacred to the river deity, became the principal type of the money of this city [sc. Agrigentum]. 2002 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 122 24 Various considerations..point to the identification of the Hero as a river deity. < as lemmas |
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