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Celusa

In Greek mythology, Celusa or Kelousa is the personification of Mount Celusa or Celossa in Phliasia; thus, by consequence, she is an mountain being of mystical nature—likely a goddess or a nymph.

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In Greek mythology, Celusa or Kelousa (Ancient Greek: Κηλοῦσαν or Κηλούσης Kelousê from kêloô ‘to have an abnormal delivery’) is the personification of Mount Celusa1 or Celossa2 in Phliasia; thus, by consequence, she is an mountain being of mystical nature—likely a goddess (akin to the Ourea) or a nymph (akin to the Oread).

Through the union with Poseidon, she gave birth to the river-god Asopus.3 Otherwise, Celusa might be the same with Pero, the so called mother of the river-deity by the marine god.4

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  1. Xenophon, Hellenica 4.7.7
  2. Strabo, 8.6.24 (p. 382)
  3. Pausanias, 2.12.4
  4. Apollodorus, 3.12.6