Tethys vs Yemoja

A Titaness, daughter of Gaia and Uranus and wife of her brother Oceanus. Hesiod makes her mother of the world's rivers and of the three thousand Oceanid nymphs; in the Iliad Hera calls her 'mother Tethys' and recalls being raised in her house.

Tethys was among the children Gaia bore to Uranus, the generation of Titans that preceded the Olympians. She married her brother Oceanus and bore him the rivers and the Oceanid nymphs.

Tethys is one of the twelve Titans born to Gaia and Uranus. Paired with her brother Oceanus, the great river that encircles the earth, she becomes in Hesiod's *Theogony* the mother of all rivers (Nile, Alpheus, Scamander, and many more) and of the Oceanids, the three thousand nymphs of springs and streams.

The Orisha of the ocean and motherhood. Yemoja is the great mother of many Orishas and all sea creatures.

Yemoja was created by Olodumare as the embodiment of maternal waters. Originally dwelling in the Ogun River in Nigeria, she accompanied her children across the Atlantic, becoming the goddess of the ocean itself.

Yemoja is the great mother Orisha, whose name means 'Mother whose children are fish.' Originally associated with the Ogun River in Nigeria, she became the goddess of the ocean during the Middle Passage, as enslaved Africans prayed to her during the horrific Atlantic crossing.