Thoughts occasioned by the "Sea of Green"

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Dumézil thought there was a connection between the name “Neptune” and the name of the Vedic and Avestan water deity Apam Napat, “child of the waters”, who was also in Persian theology the guardian (together with Anahita) of the luminous aura of legitimate sovereignty—the xvarnah (khvarnah) or in later Persian, such as the Shahnameh, the farr—which resided in the cosmic waters. I wonder if Neptune had in early times any association with sovereignty?



Neptune, 4th c. CE mosaic from Tunisia.