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From: MSN NicknameNEBSManager  (Original Message)Sent: 2/1/2008 9:41 AM

Oceanus 
 
According to Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes, Oceanus wasn't a Titan, like in Hesiod's Theogony. Rather that he was primeval Ocean. See also the Titans, Oceanus.

According to Homer, the gods arose from Oceanus and Tethys. Like Hesiod, the river Ocean (or Oceanus) surrounded the flat disk of the Earth (Gaea). The river Oceanus is the outer limit of the universe, where the sun doesn't shine. See Homeric Creation.

According to Apollonius, Oceanus was possibly the father of the Creator Goddess, Eurynome. Either Eurynome self-created herself by springing out of the Ocean, or he actually fathered her. See also Eurynome and Ophion in the Creation page.

The historian, Diodorus Siculus, wrote:

  For I go to see the ends of the bountiful earth,
Oceanus source of the gods and Tethys divine
Their mother. 

 

Though there are no actual myths about Oceanus being a Creator god, other than brief references scattered throughout the ancient sources, we can only guess of his importance in the Creation myths.
 



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