[515] τριτογένεια, also 8.39, 22.183, Od. 3.378; derived by the Greeks from a river Triton, variously located in Boiotia or Thessaly, or from the lake Tritonis in Libya. All these words are possibly connected with a stem “τριτο-”, meaning water, which appears in “τρίτων, Ἀμφιτρίτη”, Skt. trita (Fick). Ameis suggests that this may contain an allusion to the myth that all the gods were children of Okeanos and Tethys (14.201); Athene has no special connexion with water. Another derivation (Eustath.) from an alleged “τριτώ” = head (i.e. born from the head of Zeus) lacks all trustworthy confirmation. The original significance of the epithet is not now to be discovered. See note on “ἀτρυτώνη,” 2.157.
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