river god

river god

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvə ˌɡɒd/

Noun

river god (plural river gods)

1. (mythology) The tutelary deity of a river.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 2108290:

     It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.

   • 1969, Fitzgerald, C. P., “The Three Ways”, in The Horizon History of China‎, New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, LCCN 69-15081, OCLC 651346222, page 113, column 2:

     Although human sacrifice was discontinued in ancient times, the idea continues that the river god claims as his own any man who falls into the stream.

   • 1995, Jeannete Faurot, Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends, Touchstone 1995, p. 219:

     From then on the people of Ye never again dared speak of the River God taking a wife.

   • 2011, Tom Meltzer, The Guardian, 13 Oct 2011:

     Some weeks, alas, we return to camp with six dead minnows and a dripping hemp bag full of dodgy clams, but this week, praise be, the river god has smiled on us [...].

Synonyms

• naiad

Translations

river-being

Akkadian: 𒀭𒀀𒇉 (dId) Arabic: please add this translation if you can Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܐܠܗܐ ܢܗܪܝܐ‎ m (ʾălāhā nahrāyā) Catalan: déu fluvial m Chinese: Mandarin: 河神 (zh) (héshén) French: dieu-fleuve (fr) m German: Flussgott (de) m Greek: ναϊάς f (naïás) Ido: nayado (io) Japanese: 河神 (かしん, kashin) Khmer: ព្រះទន្លេបាន (preah tʊənlei baan) Korean: 강신 (gangsin), 하신 (hasin) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: deus flūminis m Portuguese: deus-rio m Russian: речно́й бог m (rečnój box) Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: rěcyny bog m Spanish: dios fluvial m Tamil: நதி கடவுள் (nati kaṭavuḷ) Telugu: నది దేవుడు (nadi dēvuḍu) Thai: พระเจ้าแม่น้ำ (prá jâo mâe náam) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• overgird, river dog