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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Cetus , also called Ceto or Cetea, was a hideous sea monster
Sea monster

Sea monsters are sea-dwelling legendary creatures, often believed to be of immense size.Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or multi-armed beasts; they can be slimy or scaly, often spouting jets of water....
, a daughter of Gaia
Gaia (mythology)

Gaia Gaia is a Greek primordial gods and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek Pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess....
 and Pontus
Pontus (mythology)

File:ConstantaPontos.JPGIn Greek mythology, Pontus was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the protogenoi, the "first-born". Pontos was the son of Gaia , the Earth: Hesiod says that Gaia brought forth Pontos out of herself, without coupling....
. The asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
 (65489) Ceto
65489 Ceto

65489 Ceto is a trans-Neptunian object Centaur discovered on March 22, 2003 by C. A. Trujillo and M. Brown at Palomar Observatory. It is apparently named after the sea monster Ceto from Greek mythology....
 was named after her, and its satellite (65489) Ceto I Phorcys after her husband.






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Corinthian Vase Depicting Perseus, Andromeda and Ketos
In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Cetus , also called Ceto or Cetea, was a hideous sea monster
Sea monster

Sea monsters are sea-dwelling legendary creatures, often believed to be of immense size.Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or multi-armed beasts; they can be slimy or scaly, often spouting jets of water....
, a daughter of Gaia
Gaia (mythology)

Gaia Gaia is a Greek primordial gods and chthonic deity in the Ancient Greek Pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess....
 and Pontus
Pontus (mythology)

File:ConstantaPontos.JPGIn Greek mythology, Pontus was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, one of the protogenoi, the "first-born". Pontos was the son of Gaia , the Earth: Hesiod says that Gaia brought forth Pontos out of herself, without coupling....
. The asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
 (65489) Ceto
65489 Ceto

65489 Ceto is a trans-Neptunian object Centaur discovered on March 22, 2003 by C. A. Trujillo and M. Brown at Palomar Observatory. It is apparently named after the sea monster Ceto from Greek mythology....
 was named after her, and its satellite (65489) Ceto I Phorcys after her husband. She was the personification of the dangers of the sea, unknown terrors and bizarre creatures. Her name came from the neuter noun ketos, "sea monster", which gives us the term cetacean today. Her husband was Phorcys
Phorcys

In Greek mythology, Phorcys, or Phorkys , was one of the names of the "Old Man [or One] of the Sea", the primeval Greek sea gods, who, according to Hesiod, was the son of Pontus and Gaia ....
 and they had many children, collectively known as the Phorcydes
Phorcydes

In Greek mythology the Phorcydes were the children of Phorcys and Ceto and include the Hesperides, the Graeae, the Gorgons, Scylla and other nymphs and monsters, mostly associated with the sea....
 or Phorcydides. In Greek art
Greek art

Greece has a rich and varied artistic history spanning some 5000 years. It began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization prehistorical civilization, and gave birth to Classicism in the ancient period ....
, Cetus was drawn as a serpentine fish. Cetus also gave name to the constellation
Constellation

A constellation is a group of stars that appear to have a physical proximity in the sky. The stars in a constellation are often vastly distant from each other, but they appear close to each other from the perspective of Earth....
 Cetus
Cetus

Cetus is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name refers to Cetus , a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called 'the whale' today....
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Consorts and children

  1. Phorcys
    Phorcys

    In Greek mythology, Phorcys, or Phorkys , was one of the names of the "Old Man [or One] of the Sea", the primeval Greek sea gods, who, according to Hesiod, was the son of Pontus and Gaia ....
    1. Echidna
      Echidna (mythology)

      In the most ancient layers of Greek mythology, Echidna was called the "Mother of All Monsters". Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhon every major horrible monster in the Greek myths,...
    2. Gorgons
      1. Euryale
        Euryale

        Euryale , in Greek mythology, was one of the immortal Gorgons, three vicious sisters with brass hands, sharp fangs, and hair of living, venomous snakes....
      2. Medusa
      3. Sthenno
    3. Graeae
      Graeae

      The Graeae , were three sisters with one eye and one tooth shared among them, and one of several trios of archaic goddesses in Greek mythology. The Graeae were daughters of Phorcys, one aspect of the "old man of the sea," and Ceto, and thus were among the Phorcydes, all of which were archaic beings either of the sea or chthonic deities....
      1. Deino
      2. Enyo
        Enyo

        Enyo in Greek mythology, was an ancient goddess of war, acting as a counterpart and companion to the war god Ares. She is also identified as his sister, and daughter of Zeus and Hera, in a role closely resembling that of Eris ; with Homer representing the two as the same goddess....
      3. Pemphredo
    4. Ladon
      Ladon

      Ladon may refer to:*Ladon , one of the dragons in Greek mythology*Ladon river in Arcadia, Greece*Ladon, Loiret, a commune in the Loiret d?partement of France...
    5. Scylla
      Scylla

      Scylla , also known as Scylle , was one of the two monsters in Greek mythology that lived on either side of a narrow channel of water. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other?so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice versa....
    6. Sirens
    7. Thoosa
      Thoosa

      In Greek mythology, Thoosa or Tho?sa was a Nereids, and one of Poseidon's Wikt:paramour. She became mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus when Poseidon possessed her in a sea cave....


In the Bible


In Jonah 2:1 (1:17 in English translation), the Hebrew text reads dag gadol (?? ????), which literally means "great fish." The Septuagint
Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
 translates this phrase into Greek as ketos megas (??t?? µe?a?). The term ketos alone means "huge fish," and in Greek mythology the term was closely associated with sea monsters. Jerome later translated this phrase as piscis granda in his Latin Vulgate. However, he translated ketos as cetus in Matthew 12:40. Another figure named Ceto is an Oceanid
Oceanid

In Greek Mythology and Roman mythology, the Oceanids were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys . One of these many daughters was also said to have been the consort of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite....
, daughter of Oceanus
Oceanus

Oceanus was believed to be the World Ocean in classical antiquity, which the Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece considered to be an enormous river encircling the world....
 and Tethys
Tethys (mythology)

File:Tethys mosaic 83d40m Phillopolis mid4th century -p2fx.2.jpgIn Greek mythology, Tethys , daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titan ess and Greek sea gods sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry but no longer venerated in cult....
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