📚 noun • entry_id 56386
river god
/ˈɹɪvə ˌɡɒd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dios fluvial
The tutelary deity of a river.
Although human sacrifice was discontinued in ancient times, the idea continues that the river god claims as his own any man who falls into the stream.
It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.
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