Thalassa Symbol

Symbol of calmness, fertility, birth, rebirth.

Thalassa is the divine female personification of the sea. She had a male counterpart named Pontos. Thalassa is the mother of Halaia, a sea nymph, and Telchines, who were fish children. Her siblings include Caelus, the god of the sky, and Terra, the earth goddess. Thalassa is considered the sea itself, although she has been depicted as a woman wrapped in seaweed, holding a dolphin in one hand and an oar in the other. She also has horns on her head in the shape of crab claws. She is a primordial deity, one of the first generation of gods and goddesses.

Thalassa symbolizes calmness. She said she would stay calm if it were not for the wind. She does not make waves that wreck ships; the wind does. She is considered the mother of Aphrodite. Thalassa symbolizes the maternal Deep from which the universe was born. She is a symbol of fertility. She also symbolizes life, birth, and rebirth from the baptismal seas in Babylon and Egypt.

Images of Thalassa have been found on coins and ancient paintings. She was mentioned in Aesops’s Fables. In modern times, Thalassa can be found in paintings, tattoos, and jewelry. There is a restaurant by the sea in Goa, India, called Thalassa. There was a television series in 1975 called Thalassa, the magazine of the sea, which focused on yachting and the sea. The show was produced in France. Thalassa was depicted in an art installation at the New Orleans Museum of Art. In Greece, there is a restaurant and bar called Thalassa. Many ships are named after Thalassa, including a drillship, a boat from the Netherlands, and a container ship.

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