Oread

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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, Oreads (ὄρος, "mountain") were a type of nymph that lived in mountains, valleys, ravines, the differ from each other according to their dwelling. The Idae were from Mount Ida, Peliades from Mount Pelia, etc... They were with Artemis since the goddess, when she went out hunting, preferred mounts and rocky precipices.

Oreads

1. Britomartis
2. Cynosura
3. Cyllene or Kyllene
4. Echo
5. Nomia
6. Oenone
7. Pitys
8. Pleiades
9. #Celaeno
10. #Alcyone
11. #Electra
12. #Maia
13. #Sterope
14. #Taygete
15. #Merope
16. #Kola
17. #Kouratni

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"Oread" is also the title of a poem by Hilda Doolittle.

Hilda Doolittle published her first poems under the name H. D. Imagiste (the 'e' was meant to suggest the French poets to whom Imagism owed such a debt). Later, she dropped the artificial surname and wrote as just plain 'H. D.'.

Oread, one of her earliest and best-known poems, which was first published in the 1915 anthology, serves to illustrate this early style well.

The title Oread was added after the poem was first written, to suggest that a Nymph was ordering up the sea...

Oread

Whirl up, sea—

Whirl your pointed pines.

Splash your great pines

On our rocks.

Hurl your green over us—

Cover us with your pools of fir.

 

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