She fell in love with Glaucus, a sea god, who, preferring a sea nymph, called Scylla, Circe transformed her into a sea monster, by poisoning the water, in which she was accustomed to bathe. […] Marina and Aphrodita, as produced from the foam of the sea; and Paphia, from Paphos. […] Around him played the sea nymphs, and the Tritons sounding their trumpet of shells. […] When Osīris was the fertilizing Nile, Typhon was the sterile sea which swallows up the river. Hence, the sea was held in abomination by the Egyptians.