Was it 'Marcion of Pontus' or 'Marcion of Pontos'?

Everyone thinks that the heretic was from the ancient Roman province of Pontus but I noticed something about the description of Marcion in Tertullian that I don't think anyone else has picked up on. Yes, everyone knows that he was called 'Marcion of Pontus.' The assumption is that he lived in the reg ion near the Black Sea of the same name. But look carefully at Tertullian's references and you actually notice that he is not thinking 'Pontus' but 'Pontos' the ancient Greek sea god of the same name. I know that some would argue that the Black Sea was simply called 'the Pontos' but I don't think that's it. I also know that in the introduction to Against Marcion there is a long section about Pontus being Marcion's inspiration owing to its 'warlike nature.' But I think there is something deeper being referenced here. Notice the accompanying idea of 'the spirit' too:

* You are stuck, Marcion, in the midst of the swell of your own Pontus

* In what year of the elder Antoninus the pestilential breeze (or 'doglike spirit') of Marcion's salvation, whose opinion this was, breathed out from his own Pontus
* whether Christ said or did not say, I am not come to destroy the law but to fulfil it, to no purpose has Pontus raged and stormed to discount that saying.
* Marcion, who set up the separation in o pposition to that peace between Gospel and Law ... by a man of Pontus, [the] separation has been let loose.
* So then, shipmaster out of Pontus ... will you please tell us under what bill of lading you accepted Paul as apostle, who had stamped him with that mark of distinction, who commended him to you, and who put him in your charge?

I can't for the life of me think why Marcion would be described as 'the Sea' and a 'shipmaster' yet I think I have discovered something here which might prove useful. The idea that keeps resurfacing is that of a 'spirit' which hovers over the waters. Any ideas? I really don't know. Is there something messianic about the sea I am missing? Does it have something to do with "And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided." (Exodus 14:21)

Any ideas would be nice.