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| − | The Nephelai (or Nephelae) were the Okeanid nymphs of clouds and rain who rose up from the earth-encircling river Okeanos bearing water to the heavens in cloudy pitchers. With their rains, the Nephelai nourished the earth and the fed the streams of their River-god brothers. The Nephelai were depicted as beautiful, young women pouring water from pitchers, like their sisters, the Naiades of the springs, or as women flitting across the sky with billowing robes. |
+ | The Nephelai (or Nephelae) were the Okeanid nymphs of clouds and rain who rose up from the earth-encircling river Okeanos bearing water to the heavens in cloudy pitchers. With their rains, the Nephelai nourished the earth and the fed the streams of their River-god brothers. The Nephelai were depicted as beautiful, young women pouring water from pitchers, like their sisters, the Naiades of the springs, or as women flitting across the sky with billowing robes. |
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| + | Okeanos & Tethys[[File:O2.1Nephelai.jpg|frame|Amphitryon sets his wife Alkmene on a burning pyre, after she claims to have lost her virginity to Zeus on the bridal night when the god came to her in the guise of her own husband. Zeus gazes down from heaven and despatches the Nephelai (clouds) to quench the flames.]] |
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Revision as of 05:32, 15 September 2015
The Nephelai (or Nephelae) were the Okeanid nymphs of clouds and rain who rose up from the earth-encircling river Okeanos bearing water to the heavens in cloudy pitchers. With their rains, the Nephelai nourished the earth and the fed the streams of their River-god brothers. The Nephelai were depicted as beautiful, young women pouring water from pitchers, like their sisters, the Naiades of the springs, or as women flitting across the sky with billowing robes.
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Okeanos & Tethys
Amphitryon sets his wife Alkmene on a burning pyre, after she claims to have lost her virginity to Zeus on the bridal night when the god came to her in the guise of her own husband. Zeus gazes down from heaven and despatches the Nephelai (clouds) to quench the flames.
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