Okaneos
Oceanus speaks of the gods of the second generation sea before Poseidon, a member of the Titans, in the name of the god who personified the great river surrounding the earth in ancient Greece and ancient Rome. It is the name which became the etymology of the word meaning sea in many languages including modern English. The ancient Greeks had assumed the earth as a flat land and believed that it was surrounded by a huge river. The Titanese Oceanos is a son born between the protagonists of Uranus and Gaia, whose upper body is depicted as a man with a long beard and lower body as a scaly fish. Okaneos is also said to have spawned all the sea, river, pond and lake between his wife Tetus, a member of the Titans, and 3,000 elves of water, nymphs, called oresans. He said that the Titans were chiefs, chiefs, kings and ancestors, and that he and his wife, Tetus, sat in the first generation of the Titans and queens.