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Rivers and coastlines were vital to our ancestors, providing food and allowing for trading and easy travel between settlements. It is no surprise, then, that water deities were hugely important to ancient civilisations.
Plato famously said: ‘We who live between the Pillars of Herakles and Phasis inhabit some small part of