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in reply to a message by Tisiphone
Thetis. I find Tethys too oceanic - the only sea name I like at all is Marina, and even then I prefer Marinus for a boy. And, though Thetis was a sea-nymph of note, she didn't give her name to an entire primeval ocean.
There's a suggestion in Wikipedia that they might originally have been the same name ...
"Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece. The pre-modern etymology of her name, from tithemi (τίθημι), "to set up, establish," suggests a perception among Classical Greeks of an early political role. Walter Burkert[3] considers her name a transformed doublet of Tethys".
There's a suggestion in Wikipedia that they might originally have been the same name ...
"Most extant material about Thetis concerns her role as mother of Achilles, but there is some evidence that as the sea-goddess she played a more central role in the religious beliefs and practices of Archaic Greece. The pre-modern etymology of her name, from tithemi (τίθημι), "to set up, establish," suggests a perception among Classical Greeks of an early political role. Walter Burkert[3] considers her name a transformed doublet of Tethys".
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