Kephissos (Boeotian river god)
Kephissos ( Greek Κηφισσός or Kephisos Κηφισός ) is the divine personification of the Boeotian river Kephissos in Greek mythology .
Like all Greek river gods , Kephissus was considered the son of the titans Oceanus and Tethys . According to Ovid, he became the father of Narcissus through the rape of the nymph Leiriope , for which Poseidon smashed him underground.
According to Pausanias, Kephissus was also considered the father of the Kephisids, fifty naiads who were worshiped on its banks. Among them was the nymph Lilaia at its source near the city of Lilaia . According to Pausanias, the Lileans used to throw cakes and other offerings into the spring on certain days, which reappeared at the Castalian spring , which supported the mythical assumption that Kephissus gave the water of the spring to the Delphians and was also the father of the spring nymph Kastalia or the Delphic Thyia . The nymphs Daulis and Melaine or Melaina were also considered to be Kephissos' daughters.
Another descendant ascribed to him with Euippe , the wife of Andreus , is a king Eteocles of Orchomenus .
literature
- Cephissus . In: Dr. Vollmer's dictionary of the mythology of all peoples , third edition, Stuttgart 1874, Reprint Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-921695-13-9 ( online ).
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kephissus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1114 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Kephisos at theoi.com (engl.)