Αλια
- A Rhodian heroine, the sister of the Telchines. Married to Poseidon, she had six sons, and a daughter called Rhodus who gave her name to the island of Rhodes. Aphrodite struck Halia's six sons with madness, and they tried to rape their own mother; but Poseidon struck them down and thrust them underground with blows from his trident, whereupon the distraught Halia threw herself into the sea. The inhabitants of Rhodes worshipped her as they would a sea-goddess, under the name of Leucothea.
- There was also a Nereid whose name was Halia. The name Halia was in fact connected with one of the names of the sea, the 'salty element' (αλς).
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