Cephissus (mythology)

Kephissos (Greek Κηφισσός or Kephisos Κηφισός ) is the divine personification of the Boeotian river Kephissos in Greek mythology.

Like all Greek river gods Kephissos was the son of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. According to Ovid, he was the rape of the nymph Leiriope the father of Narcissus, for which Poseidon slammed him into the ground.

Kephissos was, according to Pausanias also as the father of Kephisiden, fifty Naiads, who were worshiped on its banks. Among them was the nymph Lilaia at its source near the town of Lilaia. According to Pausanias, the Liläer cultivated on certain days to throw cakes and other offerings in the source, who again came to the fore in the Castalian spring, what the mythical assumption was based, Kephissos have the Delphern given to the water source and is also the father of the nymph Castalia or the Delphic Thyia. The nymphs Daulis and Melaine or Melaina were considered Kephissos ' daughters.

Another attributed to him descendant with Euippe, the wife of Andreus, a king Eteocles of Orchomenus.