英和和英

名詞

river god (複数形 river gods)

1. (mythology) The tutelary deity of a river.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 2108290:

     It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.

   • 1969, Fitzgerald, C. P., “The Three Ways”, in The Horizon History of China‎^[1], New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, LCCN 69-15081, OCLC 651346222, page 113, column 2:

     Although human sacrifice was discontinued in ancient times, the idea continues that the river god claims as his own any man who falls into the stream.

   • 1995, Jeannete Faurot, Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends, Touchstone 1995, p. 219:

     From then on the people of Ye never again dared speak of the River God taking a wife.

   • 2011, Tom Meltzer, The Guardian, 13 Oct 2011:

     Some weeks, alas, we return to camp with six dead minnows and a dripping hemp bag full of dodgy clams, but this week, praise be, the river god has smiled on us [...].

同意語

• naiad

アナグラム

• overgird, river dog