River-Daughter of the Borysthenes

River-nymph tier (rendered 'deity'). Unnamed in the sources beyond 'daughter of Borysthenes'; her term carries the river's Greek name. Herodotos praises the Borysthenes as the most profitable of rivers (4.53).

Children

• First Man Targitaos

Domains

• rivers

Relations

• lover: Sky-Father Papaios

Sources

• Herodotos, Histories 4.5 (Godley)
• D.S. Raevskiy (1977); R. Schmitt et al., Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'Scythians'