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Did you know that the sons and daughters of King Frank and Queen Helen, the first rulers of Narnia, married naiads and dryads and wood-gods and river-gods? The people of Archenland and Calormen are descended from them.

Art by Kelley McMorris.

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2021-10-19

For today’s : how the classical myth of the nymph Arethusa and the Alpheus inspired the Elvish love story of Nimrodel and Amroth in The https://t.co/q7xUwVXGzN
(Statue in Ortygia, Sicily; art by LiigaKlavina)

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2020-08-20

Trojan War Episode 27:

The River-God Scamander, sympathetic to the Trojans, calls Apollo for help but Achilles attacks the river. The river attacks back Achilles with all his waves 🌊 but the gods intervene. The fire of Hephaestus boils the river until he relents. 🔥

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2020-02-13

Nephelai were nymphs of clouds and rain. They bore water in cloudy pitchers & fed streams of River-God brothers with rain

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2017-09-28

Bust probably of Alexander. Known as the "Inopos" since it was once thought to represent the river-god Inopos.

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2017-01-18