Nereus
Greek · numen · primordial · numen
Numen — the primordial Old Man of the Sea, eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, father of the fifty Nereids by the Oceanid Doris. A gentle, truthful shape-shifting sea-prophet; Heracles wrestled him through his metamorphoses to learn the road to the Hesperides. Father of Thetis.
Children
Domains
- sea
- prophecy
- truth
Powers
- Protean shape-shifting
- Infallible prophecy
Epithets
- ἅλιος γέρων
- ἀψευδής
Relations
- father of: Thetis