Achelous (Greek deity)

LC control no.	no2017032519
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Achelous (Greek deity) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Acheloios (Greek deity) Achelojas (Greek deity) Achelojus (Greek deity) Acheloo (Greek deity) Acheloos (Greek deity) Aheloj (Greek deity) Aĥeloo (Greek deity) Akeloo (Greek deity) Akelou (Greek deity) Akheloĭ (Greek deity) Akheloios (Greek deity) Akheloos (Greek deity) Akhelóosz (Greek deity) Aqueloo (Greek deity) Aquelou (Greek deity) Αχελωος (Greek deity) Αχελωιος (Greek deity) Ахелој (Greek deity) Ахелой (Greek deity)
Other standard no.	Q391379 67259053 118646699 083289399 FRBNF15082673 901000751
Associated country	Greece
Associated place	Achelous River (Greece)
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Found in	Molinari, Nicholas J. Potamikon : sinews of Acheloios, 2016. Britannica online, March 14, 2017 (Achelous, Greek Akheloios, shape-shifting Greek river god who was the personification of the Achelous River, one of the longest rivers in Greece. Achelous, who was worshipped as the god of fresh water, was chief among his 3,000 brothers, and all springs, rivers, and oceans were believed to issue from him) <https://www.britannica.com/topic/Achelous-Greek-river-god> Theoi Greek mythology website, March 14, 2017 (Akheloios (Achelous) was a River-God of Aitolia (Aetolia) in central Greece. As the deity of the largest river in the region he was often portrayed as the god of fresh-water in general; Greek name: Αχελωιος = Achelōios, Αχελωος = Achelōos) <http://www.theoi.com/Potamos/PotamosAkheloios.html> GreekMythology.com, March 14, 2017 (Achelous was a deity in Greek mythology, the river god of the eponymous river, which is the largest in Greece. Therefore, Achelous was the most important of the river gods. Although some sources mention that he was the son of Gaea and Oceanus, it was generally believed that all river deities were descendants of Tethys and Oceanus. Achelous is also called Acheloos) <http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Minor_Gods/Achelous/achelous.html> Wikipedia, March 14, 2017 (In Greek mythology, Achelous (Ancient Greek: Αχελωιος = Achelōios, and later Αχελωος = Achelōos) was originally the god of all water, and the rivers of the world were viewed by many as his sinews. Later, in Hellenistic times, he was specifically a river god who became the patron deity of the Achelous River, which is the largest river of Greece, and thus the chief of all river deities, every river having its own river spirit (though the initiated still revered him as the god of all water) Asturian page (Aquelou) Bulgarian page (Ахелой = Akheloĭ) Spanish page (Aqueloo) Esperanto page (Aĥeloo) Basque page (Akeloo) Italian page (Acheloo) Lithuanian page (Achelojus; Achelojas) Hungarian page (Akhelóosz) Norwegian page (Akheloos) Portuguese page (Aqueloo) Albanian page (Akelou) Serbian page (Ахелој = Aheloj)
Invalid LCCN	sh 86002975