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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Oceanus
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**Domain**: The world-encircling river Ocean; the source of all waters
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**Symbol**: The great river coiled round the earth's rim, the bull-horned brow, the serpent-tailed body, the fish and the flowing stream
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**Roman Equivalent**: Oceanus
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## Overview
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Oceanus is the eldest of the Titans, children of [Gaia](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/gaia) the earth and [Uranus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/uranus) the sky, and he is the great river Ocean itself — not a sea within the world but the vast freshwater stream that the Greeks believed ran round the whole disc of the earth, the boundary of the known and the source from which every other water flows. Rivers, springs, wells, rain, and the salt sea alike were held to rise from him. Homer calls him the origin of all the gods, and in the oldest cosmology he and his wife [Tethys](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/tethys) are something close to the wellspring of the divine race. He was pictured as a mighty figure with the horns of a bull and a serpentine, fish-tailed lower body, forever pouring.
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Of all the Titans he is the least warlike. When [Cronus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/cronus) rose against their father and later when [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus) rose against Cronus, Oceanus is remembered as the one who held apart from the strife — the elder power who abides at the edge of things and simply keeps flowing while the succession of rulers plays out at the center. He is the constancy beneath the turnings of the world, the river that was there before the quarrels and will be there after.
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## Key Myths
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**The father of the waters.** By his sister-wife [Tethys](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/tethys), Oceanus fathered the three thousand rivers of the world and the three thousand Oceanids, the nymphs of springs and streams and clouds. Every river-god a Greek could name — every fountain, every rain-cloud — traced its descent to his union with Tethys. He is genealogy made liquid: the single source branching into all the flowing waters of the earth.
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**The Titan who kept the peace.** Alone among the great Titans, Oceanus took no part in the castration of [Uranus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/uranus) and stood aside from the Titanomachy against [Zeus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/zeus). In Aeschylus he even comes, an old and cautious kinsman, to counsel [Prometheus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/prometheus) toward submission after the war. For this restraint he was left unpunished when the other Titans were cast down — the elder river permitted to go on encircling the world as he always had.
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**The edge of the world.** To sail to Oceanus was to reach the limit of the known — the stream beyond which lay the lands of the dead, the rising and setting places of [Helios](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/helios) the sun, and the marvels at the world's rim. He is the horizon given a body, the boundary that both encloses the world and hints at what lies past it.
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## Related
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- [Tethys](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/tethys) — His sister and wife, mother with him of the rivers and the Oceanids
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- [Gaia](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/gaia) — His mother, the earth
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- [Uranus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/uranus) — His father, the sky
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- [Cronus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/cronus) — His brother, who led the Titans; Oceanus stood apart
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- [Prometheus](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology/prometheus) — Whom he counselled after the Titanomachy
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- [Mythology](/knowledge/mythology)
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- [Greek Mythology Index](/knowledge/mythology/greek-mythology)
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