The fifty daughters of Nereus, the Nereids, are personifications of the smiling, quiet sea.
He is not alone in his doings and conflicts, but has in conjunction with himself a number of genii - for the most part personifications of ethical ideas.
His first work (1804) was an attempt to show by means of their names that the giants of the Bible and of Greek mythology were personifications of natural phenomena.
In connexion with the principal object of this cult, Tantric theory has devised an elaborate system of female figures representing either special forms and personifications or attendants of the "Great Goddess."
Elsewhere we see prophets and sibyls, personifications of the theological virtues and of the sciences.
