Sea Goddess

Lord, in the water she was a mermaid, a sea-goddess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The best of rights hast thou, seeing it is my child thou wilt wed, O son of the sea-goddess, whom Nereus begat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lightly now shall I feel the grief of the sea-goddess, for her son too must die. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wilt thou leave these hallowed precincts of the sea-goddess? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Leave then this home of sacrifice, the shrine of our sea-goddess. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Neptune overtakes him with a terrible tempest, in which he is shipwrecked, and in the last danger of death; till Lencothea, a sea-goddess, assists him, and, after innumerable perils, he gets ashore on Phaeacia. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Its head, fortified with iron, was fashioned in the shape of a snapping turtle (to honor Ariakan's sea-goddess mother), and was mounted on a wheeled platform that would be rolled over the road, right up to the main gate. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1995)

After all, she was the sea-goddess who gave birth to Latinus — whose daughter Lavinia married Aeneas and produced Iulus — so she had a special significance for Gaius Marius, married to a Julia. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

I thought it was a sort of charm to keep me safe from the sea-goddess. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

The third was saved by the mercy of the sea-goddess, who kept him afloat in the wreckage. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1983)

Achilles was the son of Peleus and the sea-goddess Thetis, who is said to have dipped her son, when a babe, in the river Styx, and thereby rendered him invulnerable, except in the right heel, by which she held him. ❋ E.M. Berens (N/A)

For two days and nights he floated about, drifted hither and thither by the angry billows, till at last, after many a narrow escape of his life, the sea-goddess Leucothea came to his aid, and he was cast ashore on the coast of Scheria, the island of the luxurious Phæaces. ❋ E.M. Berens (N/A)

Gefion should be the sea-goddess, since that seems to be the meaning of her name, but her functions are apparently usurped by the Wane Njörd; according to Snorri, she is the patron of those who die unwedded. ❋ L. Winifred Faraday (N/A)

Galatea the sea-goddess (identical with Aphrodite, the sea-born symbol of the beauty of the natural-world) passes by in her chariot drawn by dolphins and surrounded by Nereids. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

_Salacia_, a Roman sea-goddess, the wife of Neptune. ❋ Lucius Apuleius (1914)