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Aci |
Very handsome
Sicilian shepherd, child of Fauno and of the Simete Nymph. Galatea
Nymph
felt in love with him, beloved but not reciprocated from the
Polifemo
the Cyclop, he jealous of Galatea, crushed under a rock the rival.
The blood strained from him under the rock changed in water, giving origin
to a river from Sicily, which taken the Aci name (Aci
Trezza).
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Aretusa
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Virtuous nymph of
the Elide; the Alfeo river sees her bathing, he felt
in love with her; but she escapes him and Artemide (Diana)
transformed her in a font at Ortigia, by Siracusa. Alfeo
followed her through the sea and he succeeded to unite his waters to her
waters.
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Catinense
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Name the Romans
used to invoke the Cerere goddess. She lived for a long time in
Sicily, together with Proserpina's daughter. She abandoned the island
when Plutone abducted her daughter.
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Ciane
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Nymph
of Siracusa, friend of Persefone, did everything possible
in varied ways to prevent the abduction of the goddess by Ades;
she wasn't able to do it so she began to cry in continuation. Ades
was mercy and then changed her in a font. The god Anapo for love,
united his waters to those of her. |
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Ciclopi
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Children
of Uranio and of Gea. Monstrous giants with a solo eye in
the middle of the front. They were four: Bronte- Sterope- Arge- Polifemo.
they manufactured the lightnings of Zeus (Jupiter) in the shops
on the Etna Volcano. |
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Cocalo
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Sicily's
King. He greeted Dedalo (Maze) running away from Minosse;
when they approached in Sicily for ask the delivery of the fugitive,
hewas killed from Cocalo, instigated from his daughters. |
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Dafni
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Sicilian
child of Ermes (Ermete) and of a nymph, came raised
from the Muses. Educated in the sound of the
bagpipe from the
Pan
god, he was the inventor of the bucolic song. He was blinded from the Gods,
for have not held faith to the love's juror to the Naide nymph.
Not having more the sight, Dafni killed himself throwing from a
rock. His father Ermes greeted him in the sky, and since then he
had revered like divinity of the shepherds. |
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Eolo
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God
of the winds, that guarded inside of the water recipients. Son of Poseidone
and of Arnea, he lived together with his 12 children (6 males and
6 female, between them married), in the volcanic islands of Sicily
that from him took the Eolie name. He greeted Ulisse and
gave him the closed winds in a leather bag, but his friends, they opened
the leather bag causing a storm that made return the ship toward the Eolie
islands. Eolo believing that Ulisse was persecuted from the
Gods, refused to help him again and chased him by. |
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Erice
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Born
from the union of Venus with the Bute argonaut, he was King of Elimi
in Sicily and he founded the city of Erice on the Mountain that
now carries his name. He built a marvelous Temple in honor of Ericina
(Aphrodite). He was killed from Ercole because had
stolen an ox to Gerione. |
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Ericina
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Nick
name of Aphrodite, protectress of the sailors. In the Temple dedicated
from Erice, on the mountain homonym, there were celebrated the Anagogia
parties and Catalogia. |
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Etna
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Nymph
born from Uranus and Gea. She gave the name to the volcano
from Sicily, where there was the forge of the god Efesto. |
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Galatea
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Very
handsome Nymph son of Nereo and Doride, beloved from the
Aci shepherd, that the Polifemo Cyclop, fallen in love with the
Nymph, crushed under a rock. Then the Nymph transformed the shepherd in
a river, uniting to him. |
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Leucosia
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One
of the sirens that together to the Partenope sisters and Ligea,
bewitched the sailors near Messina. |
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Lia
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With
this name the Sicilians invoked Diana, considered lunar goddess. |
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Ortigia
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Islet in the gulf
of Siracusa, where Alfeo transformed into a river; reached
the Aretusa Nymph, transformed into a font by Artemide. |
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Paligi
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Demons,
twin children of Zeus and of the Talia Nymph, revered in Sicily.
To evade the persecution of Era, Talia hided from Zeus under earth. A little
time after not far from the Simeto river, they got out of the ground two
children that the Nymph had given birth to, and they were called Paligi
(that means native two times). In the place they were born, the Sicilians
built a big Temple which became place of meeting of the escaped slaves. |
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Polifemo
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Ciclope,child
of Poseidone (Neptune) and of Toosa, giant with
an only eye, blinded from Ulisse that the escaped together with
the friends. Fallen in love with Galatea, his Aci rival killed
him with a rock. |
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Psofi
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Daughter
of Erice; one of the deadly beauties beloved from Eracle. |
