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

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

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

• “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

• “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

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

  Philippine Folk-Tales

• “Then Kuehleborn derides her and the attendants are about to seize him, in order to turn him out-of-doors, when the statue of the water-god breaks into fragments, while Kuehleborn stands in its place, the waters pouring down upon him.”

  The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas

• “And if the moon is supposed to affect his tides, that body becomes his water-god.”

  Moon Lore

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