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Conversations: It’s Better Down Where It’s Wetter, Deities of The Sea w/ Dr. Ryan Denson

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Hippocamps and the Sea

i imagine it'd be very comforting to have like human elements that you can imagine under those waves because without that they would just be this like terrifying mystery. One of the things too that's so striking about the trittons and nyroids is not only are they sort of like physically human but they do have human behavioral characteristics as well. i wrote a whole appendix of the thesis on hippocamps actually amazing what like do they appear in much tech sourcing I feel like all i ever do is see them visually but i would love to know more about them.

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