Limnad
In Greek mythology, the Limnads or Limnatides or Leimenids were a type of Naiad.Mythology
The Limnads are Naiads that lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were the Potamoi or the lake gods.The number of Limnads includes but is not limited to:
- The Astakides, nymphs of the Lake Astakos in Bithynia
- Bolbe, nymph of a Thessalian lake of the same name, also classed as an Oceanid due to her parentage
- Limnaee, daughter of the Indian river god Ganges, one of the reputed mothers of Athis
- Pallas
- Tritonis, nymph of the homonymous salt-water lake in Libya, mother of Nasamon and Caphaurus by Amphithemis, and, according to an archaic version of the myth, also of Athena by Poseidon.