Limnades

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Greek deities series
Primordial deities
Titans and Olympians
Aquatic deities
Chthonic deities
Personified concepts
Other deities
Asclepius, god of medicine Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis Pan, shepherd god
Nymphs
Alseid Auloniad Crinaeae Dryads Hamadryads Hesperides Limnades	Meliae Naiads Napaeae Nereids Oceanids Oreads Pegaeae

In Greek mythology, the Limnades were a type of nymph. They live in fresh water lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.

The Limnades include:

1. Astakides
2. Limnaee

[Image showing detail from John W. Waterhouse's painting of Hylas and the Nymphs]

 

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