Ruler of the oceans and seas, she presides even over the Tritons who serve as Mermaid royalty.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Spec’s
- Details
- Encyclopedia Excerpts
- 2020 Update
- Additional Notes
- Thetis and Her Kind; the Powerful Original Mer-people, Sea-nymphs
- The Six Twin Deities; Deity Parents of Many Demi-deities
- 2022 Update: Vision/Spell for/of the 2160s
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Introduction:
Thetis is one of the 50 daughters of Nereus, who was a son of Gaia (the Earth itself) and Pontus (a son made from Gaia without need of a father; back when the first root-race people were able to reproduce asexually, by thought/will alone), and Doris, another member of the powerful ancients descended directly from the demi/gods. She can create more of her kind just by willing part of the waters that are her / come from her… to form a new body in her likeness. It takes no energy/magic/manna for her to use her natural hydrokinesis superpower; she doesn’t just control the waves and rain, she is them (so making them rise up or move away is no different to her than flexing or breathing is for us).
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Spec’s:
- She can be a droplet of water or as big as a tidal wave. She can take on many water-based forms; surf foam, whirlpool, splash, etc.
- Her hair and eyes are usually always a sea-green / blue-green color-scheme.
- As a deity staying on a Dyson Sphere (which Earth and all planets are), she can choose to sometimes look one way or another through/into the time-stream of the dimension/realm/world she is in/on, but only the deities who remained in/of the stars themselves (as all stars are literal star-gates whose cores connect as a shared reality/oneness known as Heaven) automatically peer out into all points in/of Space, time, and the dimensions/realities/Universes. In other words, Thetis can look ahead or back through all the points in time which she (as the ocean/s) exist in, or will exist in, but she must consult with her ancestors (the gods/stars themselves) to look beyond that range.
- always appears between 5’2″ and 5’6″ when meeting King Auz, knowing he deserves to be honored/obeyed that way
- always “wet”, never needing any rest or lube
- can sense where all water in/on/above the Earth is, even if it is in Agharta‘s “underground” seas
- is extremely grateful to King Auz and his Inisfreeans for their clever and speedy help at cleaning her back up after what the invaders (humans) did to her (as she is powerful in many ways, but not able to prevent the dumping of trillions of tons of big and tiny trash into her from all shores by billions of deformed monsters who are too deformed to be telepathically connected with her, let alone aware and respectful of her)
- easily causes/stops tidal waves (even if from a big asteroid impact)
- works with the other gods/goddesses when it is time to submerge/wash/cleanse entire lands (such as Atlantis, Middle Earth, Lemuria, Zealandia, etc.)
- will one day will herself up as the restored Firmament
- One day after that (in the distant future), she’ll be reconnected with her sisters; the living-oceans of all the other allied/compatible worlds/realms (as they were in the Beginning Time/Age; there was no Space back then, but only a denser yet still-breathable atmosphere).
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Details:
THETIS was a goddess of the sea and the leader of the fifty Nereides. Like many other sea gods she possessed the gift of prophesy and power to change her shape at will.
Because of a prophesy that she was destined to bear a son greater than his father, Zeus had her marry a mortal man. Peleus, the chosen groom, was instructed to ambush her on the beach, and not release his grasp of the struggling goddess as she metamorphosed into a host of shapes. The couple were afterwards married in a ceremony attended by all the gods of heaven. She bore a son, the celebrated hero Akhilleus (Achilles).
In her desperate attempts to protect her son during the Trojan War, Thetis called in many favors from the gods. These included Hephaistos (Hephaestus) and Dionysos, both of whom she had given refuge in the sea as they faced crises of youth, and Zeus, whose throne she had protected by summoning the giant Briareus-Aigaion (Aegaeon) when the gods had sought to bind him.
Thetis’s name is connected with the ancient Greek words thesis “creation” and têthê “nurse”.
FAMILY OF THETIS
PARENTS
NEREUS & DORIS (Hesiod Theogony, Homer Iliad, Homeric Hymns, Pindar Odes, Alcaeus, Apollodorus, Apollonius Rhodius, Ovid Metamorphoses, et al)
OFFSPRING
AKHILLEUS (by Peleus) (Homer Iliad & Odyssey, Hesiod Theogony, Alcaeus, The Aegimius, Apollodorus, Plato Republic 391c, Ovid Metamorphoses, et al)
ENCYCLOPEDIA
THETIS (Thetis), one of the daughters of Nereus and Doris, was the wife of Peleus, by whom she became the mother of Achilles. (Hom. Il. i. 538, xviii. 35, &c., 52, &c.; Hes. Theog. 244.) Later writers describe her as a daughter of Cheiron (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 558). According to others, Peleus married Philomela, the daughter of Actor, but his friend Cheiron, wishing to render Peleus celebrated, spread the report that he was married to Thetis. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 816.) Being a granddaughter of Poseidon, Catullus (64. 28) calls her Neptunine. As a marine divinity, she dwelt like her sisters, the Nereids, in the depth of the sea, with her father Nereus. (Hom. Il. i. 358, xviii. 36, xx. 207.) She there received Dionysus on his flight from Lycurgus, and the god, in his gratitude, presented her with a golden urn. (Hom. Il. vi. 135, Od. xxiv. 75; comp. Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 273.) When Hephaestus was thrown down from heaven, he was likewise received by Thetis. She had been brought up by Hera (Il. xxiv. 60), and when she reached the age of maturity, Zeus and Hera gave her, against her own will, in marriage to Peleus. Poseidon and Zeus himself are said by some to have sued for her hand (Pind. Isthm. viii. 58), but when Themis declared that the son of Thetis would be more illustrious than his father, both suitors desisted. (Pind. l. c. viii. 70; Ov. Met. xi. 225, xv. 856, xi. 350, &c.; Aeschyl. Prom. 767 ;Hygin. Fab. 54 ; Serv. ad Virg. Eclog. vi. 42.) Others state that Thetis rejected the offers of Zeus, because she had been brought up by Hera (Hom. Il. xxiv. 60; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 793); and the god, to revenge himself, decreed that she should marry a mortal. Cheiron then informed his friend Peleus how he might gain possession of her, even if she should metamorphose herself; for Thetis, like Proteus, had the power of assuming any form she pleased, and she had recourse to this means of escaping from Peleus, but the latter did not let her go, until she again assumed her proper form. (Apollod. iii. 13. § 5; Pind. Nem. iii. 60; Paus. viii. 18. § l.) Others again relate, that a marine divinity appeared to Peleus on Mount Pelion, and testified her love to him, but without revealing herself to him. Peleus, however, who saw her playing with dolphins, recognized the goddess, and henceforth shunned her presence. But she encouraged him, reminding him of the love of Eos to Tithonus, of Aphrodite to Anchises, &c., and promised to present him with a son who should be more illustrious than any mortal. (Philostr. Her. 19. 1.) The wedding of Peleus was honored with the presence of all the gods. (Hom. Il.xxiv. 62.) After she had become the mother of Achilles, she bestowed upon him the tenderest care and love. (Hom. Il. i. 359, 500, &c., viii. 370, xviii. 73, 457; comp. Achilles.) Her prayers to Zeus for him were listened to, because at one time, when Zeus was threatened by the other gods, she induced Briareus or Aegaeon to come to his assistance. (Hom. Il. i. 396, &c.) Thetis had a temple (Thetideion) between Old and New Pharsalus in Thessaly (Strab. ix. p. 431), and in Sparta and Messenia she was likewise worshipped. (Paus. iii. 14. § 4, 22. § 2.)
HALOSYDNE (Halosudnê), that is, “the seafed,” or the sea born goddess, occurs as a surname of Amphitrite and Thetys. (Hom. Od. iv. 404, Il. xx. 207.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
PARENTAGE & REARING OF THETIS
Homer, Iliad 24. 59 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
“A goddess [Thetis], one whom I myself [Hera] nourished and brought up.”
Hesiod, Theogony 240 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
“To Nereus and to Doris . . . there were born in the barren sea daughters greatly beautiful even among goddesses : Ploto and Eukrante (Eucrante) and Amphitrite and Sao, Eudora and Thetis [in a list of fifty names].”
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 168 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
“Thetis had been reared by Hera.”
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 757 ff (trans. Rieu) (Greek epic C3rd B.C.) :
“[Hera addresses Thetis :] ‘I brought you [Thetis] up myself and loved you more than any other Lady of the Sea.’”
THETIS & THE FALL OF HEPHAESTUS
Homer, Iliad 18. 369 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
“[Hephaistos (Hephaestus) addresses his wife Kharis (Charis) :] ‘There is a goddess [Thetis] we honour and respect in our house. She saved me when I suffered much at the time of my great fall through the will of my own brazen-faced mother, who wanted to hide me for being lame. Then my soul would have taken much suffering had not Eurynome and Thetis caught me and held me . . . With them I worked nine years as a smith . . . working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos (Oceanus) around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur. No other among the gods or among mortal men knew about us except Eurynome and Thetis. They knew since they saved me. Now she has come into our house; so I must by all means do everything to give recompense to lovely-haired Thetis for my life.’”
Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 319 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th – 4th B.C.) :
“[Hera addresses Zeus :] ‘My son Hephaistos (Hephaestus) whom I bare . . . I myself took in my hands and cast out so that he fell in the great sea. But silver-shod Thetis the daughter of Nereus took and cared for him with her sisters : would that she had done other service for the blessed gods.’”
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 19 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
“Zeus threw [Hephaistos (Hephaestus)] from the sky. [He] landed on Lemnos, crippled in both legs, but saved by Thetis.”
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 2. 433 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
“The cunning God-smith [Hephaistos (Hephaestus)] welcomed she [Thetis] within her mansion, when from heaven he fell.”
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 41. 4 – 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
“Eurynome was a daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), whom Homer mentions in the Iliad, saying that along with Thetis she received Hephaistos (Hephaestus) . . . If she [Eurynome] is a daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus), and lives with Thetis in the depth of the sea, the fish may be regarded as a kind of emblem of her.”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 43. 400 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
“Clever work of Hephaistos (Hephaestus), Olympian ornaments . . . necklace and earrings and armlets he [Nereus] brought and offered, all that the Lemnian craftsman had made for the Nereides with inimitable workmanship in the waves–there in the midst of the brine he [at the time he lived with Thetis in the sea] shook his fiery anvil and tongs under the water, blowing the enclosed breath of the bellows with mimic winds, and when the furnace was kindled the fire roared in the deep unquenched.”
THETIS & THE FLIGHT OF DIONYSUS
Homer, Iliad 6. 135 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
“[Lykourgos (Lycurgus)] once drove the fosterers of rapturous Dionysos headlong down the sacred Nyseion (Nysian) hill, and all of them shed and scattered their wands on the ground stricken with an ox-goad by murderous Lykourgos, while Dionysos in terror dived into the salt surf, and Thetis took him to her bosom, frightened, with the strong shivers upon him at the man’s blustering.”
Stesichorus, Fragment 234 (from Scholiast on Homer’s Iliad) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric III) (Greek lyric C7th to C6th B.C.) :
“When he [Dionysos] was pursued by Lykourgos (Lycurgus) and took refuge in the sea, Thetis gave him a kindly welcome, and he gave her the amphora [a golden urn], Hephaistos’ (Hephaestus’) handiwork. She gave it to her son [Akhilleus (Achilles)], so that when he died his bones might be put in it. The story is told by Stesikhoros (Stesichorus).”
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 34 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
“Lykourgos (Lycurgus) . . . was the first to show hubris to Dionysos by expelling him. Dionysos fled to the sea and took shelter with Nereus’ daughter Thetis.”
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 2. 433 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
“In her [Thetis’] bowers she sheltered Dionysos, chased by might of murderous Lykourgos (Lycurgus) from the earth.”
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2. 21 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
“[The Hyades :] Pherecydes the Athenian [C5th B.C. mythographer] says, are the nurses of Liber, seven in number, who earlier were nymphae called Dodonidae . . . They are said to have been put to flight by Lycurgus and all except Ambrosia took refuge with Theits, as Asclepiades [of Samos, C3rd B.C. poet] says.”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 20. 350 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
“He [Dionysos] thought Kronion (Cronion) [Zeus] was fighting for Lykourgos (Lycurgus) [an Arabian king who attacked Dionysos and his troop of Bakkhantes (Bacchantes)], when he heard the thunderclaps rolling in the heavens. He took to his heels in fear and ran too fast for pursuit, until he plunged into the gray water of the Erythraian Sea [the Red Sea]. But Thetis in the deeps embraced him with friendly hands, when he entered within the loud-resounding hall. Then she comforted him with friendly words, and said : ‘Tell me, Dionysos, why are your looks despondent? No army of earthborn Arabs has conquered you, no pursuinig mortal man, you fled from no human spear; but Hera, sister and consort of Zeus Kronides (Cronides), has armed herself in heaven and fought on the side of Lykourgos–Hera and stubborn Ares and the brazen sky; Lykourgos the mighty was only a fourth. Often enough your father himself, the lord of heaven ruling on high, had to give way to Hera! You will have all the more to boast of, when one of the Blessed shall say–Hera consort and sister of mighty Zeus took arms herself against Dionysos umarmed!’
So speaking, the Nereis (Nereid) tried to console Bakkhos (Bacchus).”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 21. 170 ff :
“In the Erythraian Sea [the Red Sea], the daughters of Nereus [Nereides] cherished Dionysos [driven into the sea by Lykourgos (Lycurgus)] at their table, in their halls deep down under the waves . . . So he remained in the hall deep down in the waves under the waters, and he lay sprawled among the seaweed in Thetis’ bosom.”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 33. 348 ff :
“She [Khalkomede (Chalcomede), a leader of the Bassarides in Dionysos’ War against the Indians] would have thrown herself rolling headlong into the waves [to escape the pursuit of the Indian Morrheus], but Thetis gave her help, to please Dionysos. She changed her shape, and stood before Khalkomedeia in the form of a Bakkhante (Bacchante) woman with comfortable words : ‘Courage Khalkomede! Fear not the bed of Morrheus. You have in me a lucky omen of your untouched maidenhead, bringing witness that no marriage shall come near your bed. I am Thetis, like you an enemy marriage. I love maidenhood, as Khalkomede herself . . . Be astute, and save us! For if you contrive your own death, without learning what marriage is without a bridegroom, the wild Indian will destroy the whole company of Bassarides. No, you must delude him, and you will save from death your army, which is now in flight while Dionysos is under the lash [driven mad by the Erinys] . . . Have no fear about marriage. No bedfellow shall loose the firm knot of your maidenhood: I swear it by Dionysos, who has touched my board, I swear it by your thyrsus, and by Aphrodite of the sea.’
She ended her consolation; and then hid the girl in a cloud, that the guards might not see her, or some spy walking cunningly in the night with secret foot, or some bold goatherd womanmad, and drag the maiden in the evening to a wayside wedding.
The girl passed over the hills in her quickmoving step, until she silently passed into the woody uplands; nor did Thetis herself linger upon the shore, but she too returned to the weedy hall of her father Nereus.”
THETIS, AEGAEON & THE BINDING OF ZEUS
Homer, Iliad 1. 393 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) :
“[Akhilleus (Achilles) addresses his mother Thetis :] ‘You [Thetis] only among the immortals beat aside a shameful destruction from Kronos’ (Cronus’) son [Zeus] the dark-misted that time when all the other Olympians sought to bind him, Hera and Poseidon and Pallas Athene. Then you, goddess, went and set him free from his shackles, summoning in speed the creature of the hundred hands [Briareus-Aigaion (Aegaeon)] to tall Olympos.’”
Ion of Chios, Fragment 741 (from Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes) (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric IV) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
“Ion says in a dithyramb that Aigaion (Aegaeon) was summoned from the ocean by Thetis and taken up to protect Zeus, and that he was the son of Thalassa (Sea).”
Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 2. 433 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic C4th A.D.) :
“The Lightning-lord [Zeus] she [Thetis] once released from bonds. ”
Statius, Achilleid 1. 209 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
“What time she [Thetis] was sent to follow Aegaeon freed [Zeus] from his stubborn bonds and to count the hundred fetters of the god.”
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 43. 361 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
“[When Poseidon led the sea-gods into battle against Dionysos and his allies during the Indian War :] Psamathe sorrowful on the beach beside the sea, watching the turmoil of seabattling Dionysos, uttered the dire trouble of her heart in terrified words : ‘O Lord Zeus! If thou hast gratitude for Thetis and the ready hands of Briareus, if thou hast not forgot Aigaion (Aegaeon) the protector of they laws, save us from Bakkhos (Bacchus) in his madness! Let me never see Glaukos (Glaucus) dead and Nereus a slave! Let not Thetis in floods of tears be servant to Lyaios (Lyaeus), let me not see her a slave to Bromios, leaving the deep . . .’
She spoke her prayer, and Zeus on high heard her in heaven [and ended the battle].”
THETIS THE SEA-GODDESS POETIC MISCELLANY
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2. 26c (trans. Gullick) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to C3rd A.D.) :
“Matron the parodist, in the Banquet, has, ‘He brought oysters, which are the truffles [i.e., a great delicacy] of the Nereis (Nereid) Thetis.’”
Ovid, Heroides 20. 60 ff (trans. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
“[Praise for a maiden :] Feet which Thetis’ own methinks could scarcely equal.” [N.B. Thetis is called the silver-footed by Homer.]
Virgil, Georgics 1. 396 (trans. Fairclough) (Roman bucolic C1st B.C.) :
“The halcyons, the pride of Thetis [here the sea personified], spread their wings on the shore.”
Propertius, Elegies 3. 6 (trans. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st B.C.) :
“Ye hundred Sea-Maidens (Aequoreae Puellae) sired by Nereus, and you, Thetis, that have felt a mother’s grief, you should have placed your arms beneath his failing chin [a boy drowning in a shipwreck]: he could not have weighed heavy on your hands.”
Statius, Thebaid 9. 360 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A.D.) :
“Often does Alcyone [the sea-nesting kingfisher] deserted make lament for her wave-wandering, spray-drenched home, when savage Auster [Notos the South Wind] and envious Thetis have scattered her darlings and their shivering nests.”
Statius, Silvae 3. 2. 1 (trans. Mozley) (Roman poetry C1st A.D.) :
“Before ships were, the waters lay in a slumberous calm, Thetis dared not foam nor the waves assault the clouds.”
Suidas s.v. Argyropeza (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) :
“Argyropeza (silver-footed) : She who has a silver foot. For peza [is] the foot.”
CULT OF THETIS
I. SPARTA Chief City of Lacedaemonia (Southern Greece)
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 14. 4 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
“The sanctuary of Thetis [in Sparta] was set up, they say, for the following reason. The Lakedaimonians (Lacedaemonians) were making war against the Messenians, who had revolted, and their king Anaxandros (Anaxander), having invaded Messenia, took prisoners certain women, and among them Kleo, priestess of Thetis. This Kleo (Cleo) the wife of Anazandros asked for from her husban, and discovering that she had the wooden image of Thetis, she set up with her a temple for the goddess. This Leandris did because of a vision in a dream, but the wooden image of Thetis is guarded in secret.”
Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 22. 2 :
“But when Menelaus had taken Ilion [Troy] and had returned safe home eight years after the sack of Troy, he set up near the sanctuary of Migonitis [sanctuary of Aphrodite founded by Paris at Migonion in Lakonia (Laconia)] an image of Thetis and the goddesses Praxidikai (Exacters of Justice).”
II. SEPIA Headland in Euboea (Euboia) (Central Greece)
Herodotus, Histories 7. 178. 1 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) :
“[A storm struck the Persian invasion fleet (historical event) as it was sailing down the coast of Euboia (Euboea) :] Finally the [Persian] Magi made offerings and cast spells upon the Wind [Boreas], sacrificing also to Thetis and the Nereides. In this way they made the Wind stop on the fourth day–or perhaps it died down on its own. They sacrificed to Thetis after hearing from the Ionians the story that it was from this place that Peleus had carried her off and that all the headland of Sepia (Cuttle-Fish) [in Euboia] belonged to her and to the other Nereides.”
III. LACINIUM (LAKINION) Promontory (Southern Italy)
Lycophron, Alexandra 856 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
“The recesses of Lakinion (Lacinium) [in Italy] wherein a heifer [Thetis] shall fashion an orchard for the goddess Hoplosmia [Hera], furnished with trees. And it shall be for all time an ordinance for women of the land to mourn the nine-cubit hero [Akhilleus (Achilles)], third in descent from Aiakos (Aeacus) [grandfather of Akhilleus] and Doris [Thetis’ mother], the hurricane of battle strife, and not to deck their radiant limbs with gold, nor array them in fine-spun robes stained with purple–because a goddess [Thetis] to a goddess [Hera] presents that great spur of land [Lakinion] to be her dwelling-place.”
Further details here.
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2020 Update:
Thetis observed from afar how Auz was interacting with the mermaids and other humanoid peoples of her seas. Just as the Elves had descended from the World Trees, they had descended from Her, and so she was telepathically connected with them, seeing what they saw, and feeling what they felt, taking a special interest in it all. Once she was satisfied that he was a truly loving man to and of them, having witnessed through her children how far out of his way he kept going to find and honor them, she made ready to make herself known.
Like how some great women are human/oid incarnations of their homelands themselves, Thetis is the living Ocean/Water. There are other water-elemental deities like that/her, such as Neptune or Poseidon, but she is the chief of their females. She will always transform back to her human-shaped wave-mode to rest and move at her quickest.
It looked like a scene out of The Abyss (1989); when this goddess arrived to meet the God-king of Inisfree, she came as a rising surf that formed into the figure of a very sexy woman, a few inches shorter than Auz, and just right in every imaginable way. The longer he stood there, marveling at her, the more she took specific details on (able to this quickly… because his focus was helping her; only positive vibes from him were her greatest relief and encouragement, each additional transformation she chose… stabilized and held there by Him, …allowing her to continue so smoothly, undistracted by any vibes that might lead to second-guessing or fear), eventually appearing like normal; her features were now of a naturally islander-bronze complexion, sleek as if wetted only from a recent dive and swim, her eyes Caribbean-blue, her voice the most mesmerizing and sexual of all of the Sirens —combined. She would put every last model, goddess sculpture, and porn-star to shame.
Taking Auz’s hands in hers, she marveled at how his felt; she was feeling his unbelievably good, powerful, and unique aura-based energy/ies, not just the “alien” texture of a non-shifting land-walker born in the modern era (Chaos Age). The two didn’t let go of each other for the rest of that first greeting and the long beach walk that followed, and they ended up touching much more that night. Thetis told him everything, illustrating so much of her Ages-long story with 3D-models made as she hydro-kinetically raised and sculpted the beverages in their cups… and the water in the cool jacuzzi they’d just shared.
All the Cecaelia, such as Mira Kan, and Mermaids had descended from Her, starting with their first leaders, known as the Tritons. So had, later on, the river nymphs, such as Urvashi (one of their first), and the rain nymphs, such as Lillian. Their moves were so fluid, not just because they’d grown up or even evolved in the water, but because they were the water –or at least, at some time in the distant past, of it.
“People today need water, but water once needed Us.” Doc’s memorable teaching came back to his mind as she told him more and more about that. Now he understood; she had created more water, as in the water-based beings, and they existed symbiotically –due to a shared source and mutual loves.
He then remembered all the times he’d sought waterfalls for his peace and restoration, and stood in lakes and surf lines to better call out through his mind and body to the people out farther within them. They’d heard his call, sending forth their finest to him, just like he’d asked, and now their very own god(dess) was here with and for him, too. He was blessed.
“Will you help me understand how to care for you; for the oceans and their people,” he heartfelt-asked, she seeing he was thinking of even the fish and seaweed, and any underwater fairy-equivalents, if they existed. The two of them again marveled at each other, kissed, and made more love; yes (she would).
“Will you help me re-green the lands and restore the firmament/s?” he asked, just as hopefully, and she smiled and nodded regally; yes, she would. It would be so easy, too; now that they had each other’s trust and love, he could literally just ask her to send up more evaporation and work with the Sylphs and Angels to keep it high and rising in the sky. This was what it took to restore something as great as a world-cover, and now they had it; they were as one.
While some of her children possessed or learned the powers that wielded the storms and seas, Thetis was those powers at their core and source; it took no energy from her to raise up the tallest walls of water, reverse the ocean currents, or start and stop the deepest whirlpools. When waters were polluted, she could feel it as plainly as a human feels an ant or speck of dirt pressing to their skin. And if ever her substance (any water) was used with ill intent (such as by bad wizards), she could stop it as effortlessly as others’ breathing.
She promised to help pull herself (the ocean water) back to make it easier on the sunken lands to resurface; Lemuria and Atlantis would both get to come back up. She promised to help rush in (in the generations ahead) to wash away the coming mega-cities the stubborn and wayward humans were already starting to build. She even promised to help communicate Auz’s pure and noble intentions with the underwater peoples (humanoid and not) the world’s oceans over… and only every ocean-ed world.
“When you come into me,” she cleverly spell-crafted, referencing his planned expeditions to various sea-beds, “I will know you now. I will accept you, and I will protect you. All I am is yours to wield and see. I give myself to you, just as Antarctica (‘s ice) now melts and flows back to the sea. Take me with you in your heart, and pray to me when you are free. I adore you, my King, Auz. You are mine and your power is Me.” Her words were naturally poetic, flowing just as well as she moved.
Her first birthday celebration would be hosted in his special city later this year –though she didn’t really have a date; she’d been created back before time was marked, and even before the Moon and Sun existed. She directed all her mermaids and other sea-babes there to indulge in the most sensuous and fluid orgies of all. Auz was forever star-struck and grateful, as were all of them.
This Inisfree-level lovemaking then calmed the seas worldwide; no more would they rise in angry rogue-waves against the intruding humans (except, of course, that one time a few centuries from this year, when one more set of cleansing spreads would be rightly called-for in order to sweep away the last of what that pesky species was forced to leave behind), and never again would they pose a risk, on their surfaces or down in their murky depths, to any good and brave souls who wished and dared to enter. Humans had loved briefly sampling little spots on the seas for a long time, but never had they loved the sum of all seas as one worthy person itself, and they had never know she was a real person, goddess or else. That was all changed now, fixed by Auz forevermore.
“Let me know if ever anyone leaves trash in you,” were among his parting words, she now ready to return to her original state and location. He would deploy his fleets immediately, rectifying that situation with total focus, uncompromising, unforgiving. They both smirked, knowing this, and made love one more time.
There would be mega-city issues with the waterways and bodies of water for many of the years ahead, but the final days were now in view on the time-horizon –and largely thanks to this very encounter between the god of the Inisfreeans… and the god of all seas. While humans focused on panicking and making little fragile products, He and Thetis were now skillfully manifesting an eternity of the cleanest waters the world had ever known. Amen –and praise Thetis, goddess of the sea –literally.
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Additional Notes:
* It would soon thereafter occur to Auz, likely because contact with this great being had transmitted that knowledge into him, that they owed Thetis for the very water in their bodies, and maybe even the Hydrogen in the stars (those stars having been Valar and proto-Elves who’d come long after elemental-firsts such as Her). Every time they salivated, cried tears of joy, came during orgasm, or went to the bathroom, it was because of the substance she had created so much of worked into (shared with) them (their ancestors). Every time they swam or it rained, it was Her, truly and completely giving herself to them. Every plant loved her touch and nourishment, and even the World Trees depended on it. The Firmament of the Earth… had been, living and literally, …Her.
“Thetis! Great and beloved Thetis, Mother of us All,” the Atlanteans had cried out in unified realization that fateful day, “honor and defend us, lower yourself to hug us, hiding us beneath your grace! Condense yourself to mask and shield us from the intruders!” And so… the Firmament had been willed and asked to come down.
The humans had, as they always had, told the polar-opposite of this truth; the humans had claimed the Atlanteans were wayward and deserving of the watery “death” those small-brained Space-animals (the humans) had assumed the descending worldwide rainfall had had to’ve caused. No Atlanteans drowned that day. Only the humans had, in telling that foolish tale, lost their way… and, in that way, died, swept away by their own rampant rudeness, determined to slander them all.
They’d struggled with Thetis ever since, having never loved her –or any beautiful truths. Meanwhile, the Atlanteans stayed completely protected by her, forgotten by the lazy-minded surface-fools. And then Auz came –and Thetis, not long after, with him. (And every time any of Auz’s ships ‘sail’ out there, she will make sure they have the most pleasant of voyages, at least in terms of how easy it is for them to traverse and see.)
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Thetis and Her Kind; the Powerful Original Mer-people, Sea-nymphs:
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The Six Twin Deities; Deity Parents of Many Demi-deities:
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2022 Update: Vision/Spell for/of the 2160s
In 2162, she married High King Auz. The very next year, she joined his top council, the greatest one in the whole Omniverse. They have been happily married ever since, she now regarding all those other council members as her family and fellow/sister-wives, all of them rightful goddesses forever.
Whatever Auz wants and needs the waters of the Earth to do, if they are off the shore from the landmasses, she makes happen for him, sensing and forecasting his will for them just as well as any telepathic or psychic ever could.
In the millennia ahead, she’ll become so voluminous and powerful that her waters/form will even reconnect many of the worlds separated in the modern (near-Shift) era/times by the Abyss humans call Outer Space; the ‘black ocean’ will once again, as long before, be a soothing blue.
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