Naiad

The Naiads (from gr Νᾱϊάδες, singular NAIAS, the; "flow" of νάειν νᾶμα or " liquid") are the Greek mythology nymphs that watch over springs, streams, rivers, swamps, ponds and lakes. They were either daughters of Zeus or of Oceanus. Dried the waters of a naiad, so they had to die.

The Naiads were often objects of local cults which worshiped as fertility goddesses. Your waters have sometimes been attributed to a magical healing powers or prophetic powers.

The Naiads were known for their extreme jealousy beyond. One story of Theocritus by the shepherd Daphnis was the lover of Nomia Naiad. Since Daphnis was her a few times unfaithful, she rebuked him out of revenge with blindness.

Types of Naiads

  • Crinaeae ( sources)
  • Limnades or Limnatides (lakes )
  • Pegaeae ( streams )
  • Potameiden (rivers )

Single -called Naiads

  • Aba
  • Aigle
  • Akraia
  • Bateia
  • Camena
  • Chariklo, wife of Cheiron
  • Creusa
  • Egeria
  • Juturna (see a Juturna source)
  • Castalia
  • Leiriope
  • Lilaia
  • Lympha
  • Melite
  • Nomia
  • Periboea
  • Praxithea
  • Salamis
  • Ersan
  • Syrinx

Descriptions of naiads find, inter alia, to in Apollodorus, Hesiod and Homer ( in the Iliad and the Odyssey ).

Naiads in art and culture

Naiads are a popular motif of the painting in the Romantic period; mythological themes come with natural representation equally in contact as the female nude

In Georg Philipp Telemann's Suite "Hamburger Ebb ' and flow " from 1723 is a set ( Gavotte ) bears the programmatic title "Playing Naiads ".

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