Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in religion and related occupations]
8. people in religion
9. spirits (beings)

Narrower term/s

• naiads

Anotations

Scope note:

Semi-divine spirits who take the form of a maiden inhabiting the sea, rivers, mountains, woods, trees, or other natural places, and often portrayed in poetry as attendants on a particular god.