Neptune (mythology)

Roman god of water, particularly the sea, considered equivalent to the Greek Poseidon

Portuguese epic poem by Luís de Camões

cave near Alghero

thumb|Neptune (mythology)|Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, [[Herculaneum, 1st c. AD]] thumb|Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia ( , ) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. Neptune was her consort. That Salacia was the consort of Neptune is implied by Varro, and is positively affirmed by Seneca, Augustine and Servius. She is identified with the Greek goddess Amphitrite, consort of Poseidon, or Tethys who was also a marine deity.

The Neptunalia was an obscure archaic two-day festival in honor of Neptune as god of waters, celebrated at Rome in the heat and drought of summer, probably 23 July (Varro, De lingua Latina vi.19). It was one of the dies comitiales, when committees of citizens could vote on civil or criminal matters. In the ancient calendar this day is marked as Nept. ludi et feriae, or Nept. ludi, from which Leonhard Schmitz (in Smith, see link) concluded that the festival was celebrated with games (ludi). Respecting the ceremonies of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build huts of

thumb|400px|Egyptian Drachm of Antoninus Pius (dated year 2 of his reign or 139 AD) showing his portrait and [[Tyche holding a rudder while reclining on couch for lectisternium (35 mm, 25.45 g)]]

Initiation rite for first crossing of the equator

painting by Caravaggio

painting by Bronzino in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Deity in the Indo-Iranian pantheon

Roman basilica in honour of Neptune

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Venilia (pronounced , or as Latin Venīlia) is a Roman deity associated with the winds and the sea. According to Virgil and Ovid, she was a nymph, the sister of Amata and the wife of Janus (or Faunus), with whom she had three children: Turnus, Juturna, and Canens.

fresco by Constantino Brumidi

painting by Peter Paul Rubens

1936 Mickey Mouse short directed by David Hand

opera by Francesco Cavalli

painting by Pietro Perugino, Louvre

1932 animated short film directed by Burt Gillett

water deity

Italian folktale

episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (S6 E26)

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Naïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 22 April 1749 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in three acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac, in the fourth collaboration between him and Rameau. The work bears the subtitle Opéra pour La Paix, which refers to the fact that Rameau composed the opera on the occasion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, at the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession. Its original title was Le triomphe de la paix, but criticism of the terms of the treaty led to a change

thumb|Title page (1651, 2nd edition)

hall designed by Alexander Briullov