The provenance file on Ōkeanós
Provenance record 175 · Ōkeanós · one temple, fully accounted for.
Provenance
1. The attestation. Ὠκεανός — "The great river encircling the world". On record: LSJ, Beekes, Pape-Benseler, Hesiod, Theogony.
2. The preserved evidence. o → Ō (Macron: long omega); o → ó (Acute accent) — absent from the ASCII form okeanos, present in the restoration, verifiable against the sources above.
3. The narrative record. Eldest of the Titans — In Hesiod's Theogony (133–138), Ōkeanos and Tethys are the eldest children of Ouranos and Gaia. While his brothers and sisters were imprisoned in Tartaros, Ōkeanos remained free, circling the earth with his waters. The Source of the Gods — In Iliad 14. 200–210, Hēra says she is going to visit Ōkeanos and Tethys, 'the source of all the gods.
4. The physical record. Roman-era floor mosaics from Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Zeugma, and the Bardo Museum depict Okeanos as a reclining bearded god holding a rudder or sea creature, surrounded by Nereids and ichthyocentaurs. Nilotic mosaics from Pompeii and Roman villas in North Africa extend the iconography of encircling waters. In Greek art, the sixth-century BCE François Vase places Okeanos among the gods at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
5. The current holding. The temple at /sites/okeanos/, classified Tier 1. The restoration preserves more than the ASCII form can express — stress, length, or a letter the Latin keyboard lost — which places it, mechanically, in Tier-1.
6. The documented resonances. Mapping & Geospatial, Maritime, Shipping & Ocean Industries, Freshwater & Hydrology — seats argued and weighted in the pattern atlas, read through the myths in this temple's Resonance File.
7. The primary sources. Theogony, Homeric Hymns, Works and Days — the library this file answers to, open at the Sacred Texts collection.
8. The continuing record. Ōkeanos gave his name to the ocean itself — one of the most universal words on the planet. The idea of a single world-encircling sea, though geographically naive, anticipated the modern understanding of interconnected oceans.
At a Glance
- Restored name: Ōkeanós
- ASCII form: okeanos
- Meaning: "The great river encircling the world"
- Domain of influence: Ocean, Fresh Water
- Pantheon: Greek
- Classification: Tier 1
- Original script: Ὠκεανός
- Series: The Restoration Files, No. 175 of 271
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