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Gods & Spirits

Electra

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The Oceanid who married Thaumas and bore Iris of the rainbow and the Harpies.

One of the three thousand daughters of Oceanus, she married the sea god Thaumas, whose name means "wonder."

According to Hesiod, the rainbow goddess Iris and the Harpies, who snatch like storms, are this couple's daughters. Daughters of sea-wonder and shining water — the genealogy is weather itself.

Her name belongs to the same family as amber (electron) and is read as "the shining one."

SourcesHesiod, Theogony

Commonly confused

She merely shares a name with Electra, daughter of Agamemnon. There is also an Electra among the seven Pleiades — mother of Dardanus, again a different figure.

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