water-god

Anon, when I gave birth to thee, because I felt shame of my sisters and my maiden years, I sent thee to the swirling stream of thy sire, the water-god; and Strymon did not entrust thy nurture to mortal hands, but to the fountain nymphs.

Rhesus 2008

Anon, when I gave birth to thee, because I felt shame of my sisters and my maiden years, I sent thee to the swirling stream of thy sire, the water-god; and Strymon did not entrust thy nurture to mortal hands, but to the fountain nymphs.

Rhesus 2008

I began to be afraid that the miller must have failed in his stratagem against the water-god, and that, as I had read in

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Kaluna came up just after we had crossed, undressed, made his clothes into a bundle, and got over amphibiously, leaping, swimming, and diving, looking like a water-god, with the horse and mule after him.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Perhaps that is why I want to go to England by water as if you were a water-god and could favour me.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Perhaps that is why I want to go to England by water as if you were a water-god and could favour me.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

O thou of fierce rays, this our (human) body dependeth on Varuna (the water-god)!

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

He went back to the house and told the family that the water-god was angry and had washed away all that he had hoped to have for the coming year.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

And the family lived on in peace and happiness, as they had done before the water-god became angry with them.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

I mounted on the broken water-god of a dry bath and leaped

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various