river god
noun/ˈɹɪvə ˌɡɒd/UK
Definitions
The tutelary deity of a river.
- 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.
- 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.
- From then on the people of Ye never again dared speak of the River God taking a wife.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA