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Thalassa

In Greek mythology, Thalassa ("sea") was a primordial sea goddess, daughter of Aether and Hemera. With Pontus, she was the mother of the nine Telchines. Sometimes, she was thought of as the mother of Aphrodite with Zeus. She was the personification of the Mediterranean Sea.

Alternative: Thalatta, Thalath

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Thalassa is a moon of Neptune. See Thalassa (moon).

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Thalassa is a fictional planet, a waterworld in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Songs of Distant Earth.

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In biology, Thalassa is a genus of ladybird beetle.

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