Neptune (mythology)
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Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He was a relative of Ceres. He is similar but not identical to the god Poseidon of Greek mythology. The Roman conception of Neptune in influenced by the Etruscan god Nethuns very much.
Neptune was associated as well with fresh water, Oceanus was the god of the world-ocean.
Like Poseidon, Neptune was also worshipped by the Romans as a horse god, under the name Neptune Equester, patron of horse-racing.
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