O:keanos etymology

From www.theoi.com

 

EURYNOME was the eldest of the goddess Titanides. She once ruled the cosmo beside her husband Ophion, until the pair were wrestled for their thrones by Kronos and Rhea and cast defeated into the earth-encircling River Okeanos.

Eurynome was perhaps the same as the Titanis Tethys, whose river-god sons nurtered the grassy pasture-lands (nomia). Eurynome's husband Ophion was also similar to Tethys' Okeanos.

Ophion-Okeanos and Eurynome-Tethys appear to have been both depicted or described as fish-tailed gods.

It is likely that Ophion and Eurynome were also equated with Ouranos (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth), the daughter of Hydros (Water) (in the Orphic Theogony). It was Ouranos that Kronos "wrestled" for the throne in mainstream myth.

Eurynome wife of Ophion was also confused or identified with Eurynome, mother of the Kharites by Zeus. Both were essentially earth-godddesses of the pasture.

 

If this equation O:keanos = Ophion is plausible, an idea occurred to me: How if O:keanos meant "Serpent-River", being *o:ke- a dialetal variant of ophis, < PIE *ogWHi- ? or *eg^Hi-/egWHi-/ngWHI- ?

 

 

Joao SL