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Question Thanks for your time.
I have been designing a submersible helicopter for a university project that takes off from the surface and then returns to its underwater compound. I am looking for a suitable name for it which traditionally comes from Greek mythology I.e the Titan missile.
Would you be able to help me with a suitable name please?
Thanks in advance,
Reuven
Answer Hello Rauven,
Here is a list of Greek water gods and goddesses. My suggestion is a female's name since thr helicopter is basically a flying ship.
Hope you find a candidate for a name:
The ancient Greek term for sea gods was Theoi Halioi or Theoi Einalioi. These deities were commanded by the Sea-King Poseidon and his Queen Amphitrite.
Regards,
Iru
AIGAIOS A god of violent sea-storms. He was an ally of the Titan gods.
AIOLOS The King of the winds. He kept the storm-winds, squalls and tempests locked away in the hollows of the floating island of Aiolia, to be released at the command of the gods.
AKHEILOS A shark-formed sea Daimon.
ALKYONE & KEYX The former king and queen of Trakhis were transformed into a pair of kingfishers. As such hey presided over the halcyon days, a period of calm seas good for sailing.
AMPHITRITE The goddess Queen of the sea, wife of Lord Poseidon. Amphitrite spawned the sea's rich bounty: fish and shellfish; as well as dolphins, seals and whales.
APHROS One of the Ikhthyokentauroi, fish-tailed centaurs. Aphros was the god of the sea-foam who, along with his brother Bythos, carried Aphrodite ashore at her birth.
APHRODITE The goddess of love and beauty. She was born of the foam of the sea, when the castrated genitals of Ouranos were cast down from heaven. Although Aphrodite was a heavenly goddess she retained a close kinship with the sea.
ARGYRA One of the sea nymphs whose name means the "Silvery One".
POSEIDON
BENTHESIKYME One of the sea nymphs, a daughter of Poseidon. Her name means "deep wave".
BRIAREOS The god of violent sea-storms. He was one of the Hekatonkheires, hundred-handed, fifty-headed giants. Briareos was a son-in-law of Poseidon.
BYTHOS One of the Ikhthyokentauroi, fish-tailed sea-centaurs. He and his brother Aphros brought the goddess Aphrodite to shore following her sea-birth. His name means "sea-depths".
DELPHIN The Daimon or god of dolphins. He aided Poseidon in the wooing of Amphitrite, and as a reward was placed amongst the stars as the constellation Delphin.
DORIS One of the Okeanides, Doris was the sea-goddess mother of the fifty Nereides. She probably presided over the mingling of fresh water with the brine.
EIDOTHEA A prophetic sea-nymph. She was the daughter of the seal-herder Proteus.
EKHIDNA A monstrous she-dragon, half serpent, half fair Nymph. She was born of the scum of the sea, and was associated with slime, sea-rot, fetid salt-marshes, eels and lampreys. By the storm Daimon Typhoeus, she became the mother of many a foul beast.
ELEKTRA One of the Okeanides, Elektra was the mother of Rainbow and Storm-Gusts by the sea-god Thaumas. She probably presided over her namesake "amber" rainclouds.
TRITON
EURYBIA An ancient sea-goddess with power over the shifts of the sea. Her descendants included the winds and the stars.
GALATEIA One of the fifty Nereides. She probably presided over her namesake "milk-white" swirls in the brine.
GALENE One of the fifty Nereides, she was the goddess nymph of calm seas.
GLAUKOS The fisherman's sea-god. Glaukos was once himself a fisherman, who was transformed to god through the ingestion of a magical herb.
GORGONES, THE Three monstrous sea Daimones with snaky locks, bronze claws, wings, and wide grinning tusked mouths. As daughters of the sea gods Phorkys and Keto they probably represented dangers of the sea, such as submerged rocks and reefs.
GRAIAI, THE Three grey-haired, prematurely old sea Daimones, who shared but one tooth and one eye between them. They probably presided over the froth of sea-foam on the shore.
HALIA A sea nymph of the brine.
SKYLLA
HARPYIAI, THE A pair or three winged sea Daimones. They were spirits of whirlwinds, water spouts, and violent storm gusts.
HELLE The goddess nymph of the sea of Hellespont.
HIPPOKAMPOI, THE The fish-tailed horses of the sea, four of whom drew the chariot of Poseidon.
IKHTHYES, THE A pair of divine fish who brought Aphrodite ashore following her sea-birth. As reward they were placed amongst the stars as the constellation Pisces.
IKHTHYOKENTAUROI, THE Twin sea-centaurs, Aphros (Foam) and Bythos (Depths), who carried Aphrodite to shore in a cockle shell following her sea birth.
INO Another name for Leukothea.
IRIS The goddess of the rainbow, was the sea-born daughter of Thaumas, the wondrous sea-god.
KABEIRO A sea nymph of the shores of Lemnos. She was a goddess of the Kabeirian Mysteries.
NEREUS
KALLISTE The sea nymph of the Island of Kalliste.
KARKINOS A gigantic crab who allied itself with the Hydra against Herakles. It was crushed beneath the hero's foot and placed amongst the stars as Cancer.
KETEA, THE The monsters of the sea's depths.
KETO An ancient sea-goddess. She was the goddess of the monsters and dangers of the sea. Her name means "whale" or "sea-monster".
KHARYBDIS The monstrous Daimon of whirlpools and the tides. She was chained to the sea-bed where her inhallation caused the seas to rise and fall.
KYMOPOLEIA A sea-nymph of high storm waves. She was the wife of the storm-daimon Briareus.
LADON A monstrous, hundred-headed sea-serpent. He guarded the western reaches of the sea, and the island and golden apples of the Hesperides.
LAMIA A monstrous shark-shaped sea Daimon. She was a devourer of men.
LEUKOTHEA The goddess of the Ionian sea. She was a protector of sailors and fishermen.
TRITON
MELIKERTES Another name for Palaimon.
NEREIDES, THE A band of fifty goddess nymphs. They were providers of the sea's rich bounty of fish and protectors of sailors.
NEREUS An ancient fish-tailed sea-god. He and his fifty Nereid daughters presided over the sea's rich bounty of fish and salt.
NERITES A sea Daimon, who was transformed into a shell-fish by the goddess Aphrodite.
OIOLYKA A sea nymph daughter of the stormy sea-gods Briareus and Kymopoleia. She probably presided over storm surges and flooding waves. Her name means "Lone Wolf".
OKEANOS The Titan god of the earth-encircling, fresh-water river Okeanos. In late classical times he was described as an old god of the briny sea.
PALAIMON A sea-god protector of sailors and fishermen. He was depicted as a boy riding dolphin-back.
PALLAS A warrior sea nymph, friend and companion of Athena.
PHORKYS An ancient sea god who presided over seals and the many dangers of the sea.
PONTOS The Protogenos or primeval god of the sea. Pontos was the liquid form of the sea itself.
APHRODITE
POSEIDON King of the seas, and lord of the sea-gods. Poseidon received his domain when the three sons of Kronos drew lots for division of the universe. He dwelt in a golden palace on the sea bed, with his queen Amphitrite.
PROSEOOUS DAIMONES, THE Evil sea Daimones which haunted the dark caverns of the island of Rhodes.
PROTEUS An old shape-shifting, prophetic sea-god. He was the herder of Poseidon's seals.
PSAMATHE One of the fifty Nereides. She was the goddess of her namesake "sand" beaches.
RHODE A sea-nymph daughter of Poseidon. She was the goddess of the island of Rhodes.
SEIRENES, THE Three dangerous sea Daimones with the heads of women and the bodies of birds. They lured sailors to their deaths with an irresistable siren-song.
SKYLLA A monstrous sea Daimon who preyed on passing sailors. She had the upper body of a nymph, the tail of a fish, and a ring of six ravening dog-heads circling her waste.
TELKHINES, THE Sea Daimones native to the island of Rhodes. They practised fell magic, bringing storms and drought, and slaying with the power of the evil eye. The gods buried them in the depths of the sea.
THETIS
TETHYS A Titan goddess originally associated with the sources of fresh-water, who was later described as a sea-goddess, similar to Thalassa.
THALASSA The Protogenos or primeval goddess of the sea's surface. She was the mother of the fishes by her male counterpart Pontos.
THAUMAS An ancient sea god. He presided over the wonders of the sea. From him were born Harpyiai (storm gusts) and Iris (rainbow).
THETIS The leader of the fifty Nereides. She presided over the spawning of sea-life.
THOOSA A sea nymph who presided over her namesake "swift" currents and rips. Like her siblings she represented one of the dangers of the sea.
TRITEIA A militant sea nymph of the Akhaian coast. She was a companion of Ares.
TRITONIS The goddess nymph of the Libyan salt-lake Tritonis.
TRITON The fish-tailed son of Poseidon. He was a god of the sea who could calm the waves with a blow of his conch-shell horn.
TRITONES, THE Fish-tailed Daimones of the sea. They belonged to the train of Poseidon.
