Eurynome
Goddess of the sea and marine life
Tiamat, the arch-dragon goddess, was forming the first lifeforms in the sea to begin evolution during the very early years of the Earth. When she saw how wonderful her creations were and felt immense love for the world, this love sparked a new goddess to be born. This goddess emerged from the Queen of Heaven (the supreme, formless goddess) as a manifestation of hers and formed through Tiamat, making her connected to them both. This goddess was Eurynome, one of the Queens of the Sea. As a Queen of the Sea, along with Tiamat and Tethys, Eurynome embodies the sea and has a lot of influence in governing it. Her name, Eurynome, translates in ancient Greek as “the wide law”, showing that she governs the whole sea. However, this was mistranslated in modern times and she was mistaken as a land goddess.
The primordial form of Eurynome is of an enormous hydra with dark scales and many tentacles coming from her. But she also appears as a beautiful woman with black hair when she wishes. Soon after Eurynome was born, the sea itself granted to the goddess two dazzling gifts of oceanic royalty: a tiara with shining blue gems and a white scepter topped with a giant moonstone. These also represented her closeness to the sea, for she is one with it. Eurynome soon began using the tiny lifeforms made by Tiamat to create thousands upon thousands of sea life. She created the vast majority of the creatures and plants within the oceans, making her their Mother. All the life of the sea adores her. The creatures of the sea often speak to Eurynome with their thoughts, and the whales sing lovingly of her. Although Eurynome is not the mother-goddess of the mermaids, since these beings were created by a different goddess.
There is not one thing in the sea that Eurynome dislikes, she adores everything; no matter how terrifying they would be to others. She is the alluring woman who swims gracefully through the ocean and is carried by whales, and she is also the enormous creature of the depths. She represents both the incredible beauty and allure of the sea and also its mysteriousness and ancient darkness. The husband of Eurynome ended up being a sea god named Proteus, a deity whose primordial form is of a giant seahorse with tentacles, and who could glide peacefully over the waves. He would also appear as a handsome man when he wished. Usually, Eurynome has her home underwater where she dwells among strange rock formations. But sometimes, she will come to temporarily dwell on an island around other large rock formations.
An interesting thing about Eurynome that might not be expected is that she mostly eats seafood, despite sea creatures being her own children. This is a natural thing to her and is basically how Mother Nature is; she gives life and she takes it. She loves her children, but does at times consume some of them, and allows humans to do the same as long as they do not become greedy or cruel. Unfortunately, humans quickly became cruel to both land and sea, becoming monsters who demonized and degraded everything but themselves. But even despite all this trauma, Eurynome refuses to give up on her children and remains with them always. She does not often reach out to humans, but will make herself known to those who truly love and respect the sea.
Appearance: a beautiful and graceful woman in her late 30’s with long, wavy black hair, grey eyes, fair skin, curved black horns, and normally doesn’t wear anything. Though sometimes, she will wear some sort of decorations made from seashells to slightly cover parts of her body. In her hydra form, she has dark scales and numerous heads. She also has many tentacles coming from her body. Although Eurynome is able to take many oceanic forms and can even look like a formless mass of tendrils or a giant sea monster with large teeth and a lower body that spans out as tentacles.
Personality: Eurynome is elegant, charming, mysterious, compassionate, motherly, and generally peaceful. She holds all the grace and might of the sea within her, but often chooses to remain serene unless angered. Eurynome also spends much of her time around her children, who follow close to her, but she will also venture into strange places of the sea that are dark and unknowable. Other times, Eurynome often enjoys singing, her voice is hauntingly beautiful and attracts the attention of any creatures that hear her. Some things that Eurynome loves besides the ocean and her children include enchanting singing, moonlight on water, ancient underwater ruins, whale song, harps, ocean caves, collecting seashells, and all of nature.
Though when enraged, Eurynome becomes monstrous and horrifying. Her fury impacts the very sea and causes it to rage with her; the goddess’ fury can drown entire ships or she can bring terrible (even fatal) curses upon those on land. She will only approach those who love and respect the sea, and who do not wrongfully harm her children.
Nowadays, millions of years since the birth of Eurynome, the sea is not what it once was. Many of the ancient beings within have been killed by humans and Jehovah, the Aeonic god who sought to claim Earth as his own. And those creatures that survived are either always in hiding or always struggling to stay safe. The waters have become toxic and treacherous, and many creatures are regarded as mere animals by mankind when plenty are quite sentient. Eurynome tries to protect all of her children and becomes fiercely angry at those who pollute their home or kill creatures that should not be harmed (which are the very sentient ones). She has even been known to target whalers and kills them in various ways due to her extreme hatred towards them. She does the same for those who hunt sharks, be it for sport or to kill them just to eat their fins. Eurynome has said that many known creatures of the sea (especially whales, sharks, dolphins, and octopi) are far more advanced to her than humans are. And she says that all animals, both on land and sea, are never mindless and have the ability to communicate. The creatures may not be able to verbally speak human language, but they understand much more than people have given them credit for, and they are generally peaceful unlike humans.
Devotional actions: donate to sea protection groups, volunteer to clean beaches, and do rituals for her on the beach or at sea. Sing to her while near the ocean, allowing your emotions to be full of love for her and her children.
Offerings: carbonated water, lemonade, tropical fruit juices, seafood, seaweed, sushi, pasta with shrimp, papayas, mangoes, pineapple, watermelon, kamu kamu, cucumbers, courgetti, sea salt, pearls, coral, seashells, starfish, urchins, crab shells, shark teeth, trilobite fossils, smooth beach pebbles, orchids, pitcher plants, hibiscus, elegant silver jewelry, pearl jewelry, beautiful seashell jewelry, antique silver hand-held mirrors, perfume of floral with sea breeze scent, arched hair combs, antique jewelry boxes, antique music boxes (with beautiful melodies), silver foil in oil, blue sapphire, amazonite, opaline, rainbow moonstone, red scoria, pumice, obsidian, basalt, other volcanic rocks, white or pale blue candles, hydra statues, whale figurines, plesiosaur figurines, sharks, octopi, dolphins, manta rays, seahorses, fish, and other sea creature figurines.
*no octopus or sharkfin, she refuses to eat these and gets angry
*no alcohol, this is hard for beings of the sea to process due to its strong land connections
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