Peering beneath the surface using an underwater camera plays with our ideas about a Fear of the Deep (body).
Sounds of underwater conjure visceral noises of a ‘subconscious language’.
Mounting a camera on the waterline of the kayak gives glimpses of below and above, sometimes together, creating a new ‘reality’. Digital manipulations can do the same.
Water (God)esses
Abzu - water lord in Sumerian mythology that threatens to take back the creation of men by a universal flood, but is imprisoned beneath the earth by Enki (Mesopotamia)
Alignak – god of tides in Inuit mythology (Siberia, Greenland and Alaska)
Arnemetia – water goddess in British mythology
Asopus - river god in Greek mythology, and father to river nymph Aegina
Atl – god of water in Aztec mythology (Central Mexico)
Atlaua – god of fishermen in Aztec mythology
Boann – goddess of the River Boyne in Irish mythology
Chalchiuhtlatonal – god of water in Aztec mythology
Doris – goddess of the Mediterranean Sea, wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids in Greek mythology
Duberdicus – god of water in Lusitanian mythology (Portugal)
Dylan Eil Ton – sea god in Welsh mythology (pre-Christian Britons)
Enki - god of the freshwater ocean of groundwater under the earth in Sumerian mythology (also referred to as Ea)
Hydros – god of freshwater in Greek mythology
Manannán mac Lir – sea and weather god in Irish mythology
Neptune/ Poseidon – god of the sea in Roman and Greek mythology
Nereus – god of the Mediterranean Sea, shape-shifter, fortune-teller, and son of Gaia and Pontus in Greek mythology
Nethuns – god of wells in Etruscan mythology (Italy)
Ninhursag - goddess of the waters and consort of Enki in Sumerian mythology
Pontus – pre-Olympian sea god in Greek mythology, and son of Gaia (earth) and Aether (air)
Proteus – early sea god in Greek mythology, he may be either a son of Poseidon, or of Oceanus and a Naiad
Rodon – god of the sea in Illyrian mythology (Balkans)
Saraswati – goddess of knowledge in Hinduism, originally a river goddess (the Saraswati River was named after her)
Tootega – goddess that walked on water in Inuit mythology
Trition - god of the sea and messenger of the deep in Greek mythology, son of Poseidon and Amphrite, and though to be a merman
Untunktahe – water god with great magical powers in Native America (Lakota) mythology
Varun - god of rain and the celestial ocean (above heaven and below the Underworld) in Hinduism
Yah - god of the waters in Canaanite mythology (Canaan)
Yami - goddess of rivers, sister to the Hindu god of death and daughter of the Sun god
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