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Examples:Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris)—shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea)—Rostov-on-Don, Russian river port and regional capital close Sea of Azov (north of the Black Sea)—Yingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and source of elixir of immortality—extinguish worries and the sea of grief—Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia—Classic of Mountain and Sea, probably compiled c. 500 BC-200 BC, contains wide range of geography, mythology, witchcraft, popular customs etc—rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies—Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—a mountain of paperwork and a sea of meetings [idiom.]— |