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Khloush
Kêlousê
Celusa
Abnormal
delivery (kêloô) |
Phrw
Pêrô
Pero
Lame, Disabled
(pêroô) |
KELOUSE (or Celusa) was the Naiad Nymph of the springs at the source of the River Asopos in Sikyonia (southern Greece). By Poseidon she became the mother of that river. Kelouse was probably one of the Okeanides, the Nymph sources of fresh water.
Her son, Asopos, was often described as a lame, a hobbling God, whose stream ran dry in summer, which explains her two names, kêloô meaning to have an abnormal delivery, and pêroô to make lame.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
PERO (Pêrô). The mother of the river god Asopus by Poseidon. (Apollod. iii. 12. § 6.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"The Asopos river was born of Okeanos and Tethys, or, according to Akusilaus [poet C6th BC], of Pero and Poseidon, while others say of Zeus and Eurynome." - Apollodorus, The Library 3.156
"Asopos, said to be the son of Kelousa and Poseidon, discovered for him [Aras first king of Sikyonia] the water of the river which the present inhabitants call after him Asopos." - Pausanias, Guide to Greece 2.12.4
Sources:
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
- Pausanias, Guide to Greece - Greek Geography C2nd AD
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