At his feet, stretched the watery load of a river god of antiquity. A few kilometres away, on the peaks of Mount Grammos, in Western Macedonia, shortly after the flood of Deucalion, two brothers, Oceanus, the most ancient sea deity of Greek mythology, and his sister Tethys, a titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, must have met. The outcome of this union was the creation of three thousand rivers, with the Haliacmon being the largest of them all.<\/p>\n
He had just got off his bike, enjoying the spectacle. He had travelled many miles to see the largest river in Greece up close, which dozens of legends, stories and even songs praise.<\/p>\n
From Mount Grammos to the waters of the Aegean where it flows into, the Haliacmon runs, shapes and is shaped by the history of the region. Sometimes it flows rapturously and sometimes it rushes, switching names depending on the people who live around it. Its name becomes Intze Kara, meaning tall and black when it meets Turks, it becomes Bistritsa, meaning fast river, when it meets Slavs, and for the Greeks, it remains the Haliacmon. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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