Ἄναπος

Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from a substrate language. Said to come from the same origin of, from , meaning "The one who swallows", due to the fact that its river path disappears underground to reappear further on several times; also compared with the opposite 🇨🇬. Cfr. 🇨🇬 for a similar morphology.

Proper noun

 * 1) It was a river in ancient Acarnania, tributary of the Achelous River, which it joined eighty stadia south of Stratus.
 * 2) One of the most considerable rivers in Sicily, which flows into the great harbour of Syracusae, now the river Anapo.
 * 3)  Anapus, a water god of eastern Sicily. He opposed the kidnapping of Persephone along with the nymph Cyane, then Hades turned them into a river (the river Anapo) and a fountain, respectively.