Brizo

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Brizo ( Greek Βριζώ "to sleep") was a goddess of the Delier in Greek mythology . She was considered the protective deity of ships and seafarers and gave prophetic dreams. The Delian women brought her as a victim foods, but explicitly no fish in boat -shaped vessels ( σκάφαι skaphai ) represents.

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Eustathios of Thessalonike commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 1720,57
Hesychios of Alexandria sv βριζομάντις

literature

René S. Bloch: Brizo. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 788.
August Schultz : Brizo . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 829 ( digitized version ).