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Pontus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Pontus (; ''Pontos'', "Sea")〔Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ''
*pont-eh1-,
*pn̩t-h1'', "path" (see R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 1221).〕 was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the Greek primordial deities. Pontus was Gaia's son and, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, he was born without coupling, though other sources say Pontus was fathered by Aether.〔http://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Pontos.html〕 For Hesiod, Pontus seems little more than a personification of the sea, ''ho pontos'', "the Road", by which Hellenes signified the Mediterranean Sea.〔The Black Sea was the Greeks' ''ho pontos euxeinos'', the "sea that welcomes strangers."〕 With Gaia, he fathered Nereus (the Old Man of the Sea), Thaumas (the awe-striking "wonder" of the Sea, embodiment of the sea's dangerous aspects), Phorcys and his sister-consort Ceto, and the "Strong Goddess" Eurybia. With the sea goddess Thalassa (whose own name simply means "sea" but is derived from a Pre-Greek root), he fathered the Telchines and all sea life.〔
In a Roman sculpture of the 2nd century AD, Pontus, rising from seaweed, grasps a rudder with his right hand and leans on the prow of a ship. He wears a mural crown, and accompanies Fortuna, whose draperies appear at the left, as twin patron deities of the Black Sea port of Tomis in Moesia.
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