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| - In Greek mythology, the Limnades / Leimenides/ Lyumnades (Λιμνάδες / Λειμενίδες) were a type of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods. The number of Limnades includes but is not limited to: 1.
* The Astakides (αι Ἀστακίδες), nymphs of the Lake Astakos in Bithynia 2.
* Bolbe (Βόλβη), nymph of a Thessalian lake of the same name, also classed as an Oceanid due to her parentage (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys) 3.
* Limnaee (Λιμναία), daughter of the Indian river god Ganges, one of the reputed mothers of Attis 4.
* Pallas (Παλλάς, genitive Παλλάδος) 5.
* Tritonis (Τριτονίς), nymph of the homonymous salt-water lake in Libya, mother of Nasamon and Caphaurus (or Cephalion) by Amphithemis,and, according to an archaic version of the myth, also of Athena by Poseidon.
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