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Pontus (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Pontus (or Pontos, "sea") was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, son of Gaia, the Earth. Hesiod (Theogony, line 116) says that Gaia brought forth Pontos out of herself, without coupling. For Hesiod, Pontos seems little more than a personification of Sea.
With Gaia, he was the father of Nereus (the Old Man of the Sea), Thaumas (the awe-striking "wonder" of the Sea), of the Sea's dangerous aspects, Phorcys and his sister-consort Ceto, and of the "Strong Goddess" Eurybia. With Thalassa— whose own name simply means "Sea" but in a pre-Greek root— he was the father of the Telchines.
Compare the sea-Titan Oceanus, who was more vividly realized than Pontus among the Hellenes.
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