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Ran The wife of Aegir, she was the sea goddess of storms. She collects drowned people in her net

Calypso Calypso (Greek: Καλυψώ Kalypsō) was a sea goddess in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of the Titan Atlas, and is also known as Atlantis (Ατλαντίς[1]) in ancient Greek. Her mother was Tethys. Calypso was confined to the island of Ogygia for supporting her father and the Titans during the Titanomachy. Name The origins of Calypso's name are uncertain. Καλύπτειν (kalyptein, "to cover", from which apocalypse is also derived) suggests that Calypso may originally have been a death goddess. The spelling of Calypso music reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name and is not otherwise related to the goddess. Role in the Odyssey Calypso is remembered most for her role in Homer's Odyssey, in which she imprisons the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island in order to make him her immortal husband. Calypso kept Odysseus hostage at Ogygia for seven years. Odysseus, however, wants to return home to his beloved wife Penelope. His...