In a 2019 story starting in Aquaman #43 by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Robson Rocha, the former king of Atlantis (look, he loses the throne a lot) washes up on a small island with no memory of who he is or how he got there. This story, called "Unspoken Water," as Think Christian explains, sees the amnesiac Aquaman living among a mysterious and eccentric people from many different cultures. In the end, it turns out these people are, in fact, the Sea Gods of the World, ancient water deities from such cultures as the Aztec, Irish, and Maori, who had been exiled to the island of Unspoken Water for their failure to keep balance in the world's oceans following the battle between the primordial deities Father Sea and Mother Salt.
Since that story, these deities have remained major supporting characters in the Aquaman series, moving with him to his home in Amnesty Bay, and are all based on authentic mythology. Mother Salt, for example, is modeled on Namma, a Babyonian sea goddess, and her daughter Caille, usually depicted in the comic as a blue woman with horns and wings, is based on Cailleach, a Gaelic weather goddess known as the Queen of Winter. The other major characters include Wee, who is really Chalchiuhtlicue, an Aztec storm and sea goddess, and Loc, aka Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god.
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