Wagyl (Waugal)
The serpent being of the Noongar people of south-western Western Australia, who in the Nyitting (creation time) moved across the land shaping its rivers, lakes, and wetlands, including the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) at Perth.
Divine domains
Gods of Freshwater
4 deities from 4 traditions whose entries in this atlas list freshwater among their domains, grouped by tradition.
Aboriginal Australian
Greek
Tethys
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.
Roman
Neptune
God of the sea, earthquakes, and horses. Brother of Jupiter and Pluto, ruler of all waters. Also associated with freshwater springs and patronage of horse racing.
Tlingit and Haida
Petrel
In the Tlingit Raven cycle, the owner of the world's only fresh water, an everlasting spring he guards by sleeping beside it, until Raven tricks him and flies off with the water to make the rivers.
Quick answers
- Who is the Aboriginal Australian god of freshwater?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Aboriginal Australian deity whose domains include freshwater is Wagyl (Waugal).
- Who is the Greek god of freshwater?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Greek deity whose domains include freshwater is Tethys.
- Who is the Roman god of freshwater?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Roman deity whose domains include freshwater is Neptune.
- Who is the Tlingit and Haida god of freshwater?
- In the Mythos Atlas catalog, the Tlingit and Haida deity whose domains include freshwater is Petrel.
Related domains
Built from each deity's catalog entry (matching “fresh water”, “fresh waters”, “freshwater”). See every domain side by side on Divine Domains, or browse every cross-pantheon parallel.