Sunday, October 11, 2009

Can i get a little help on the god poseidon?how did poseiodon influence the mortal world.?

I have an example on Persephone.


Persphone had eaten a few pomegranate seeds, so she would have to return to the Underworld for as many months as the sees she had eaten. This explains the seasons.


Persephone is in the Underworld in the winter time

Can i get a little help on the god poseidon?how did poseiodon influence the mortal world.?
Poseidon Greek god of the sea. Son of Kronos and Rhea. He and his siblings were swallowed by Kronos, but they were later rescued by their brother Zeus. The brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades later divided the world among themselves, with Poseidon receiving dominion over the sea. His chief consort was Amphitrite. Father of Antaios, Orion and Polyphemos. Poseidon was secondarily a god of mariners (to whom he may send storms or a fair voyage), of waters in general, and of earthquakes. In the latter capacity he was known as Enosigaios or Enosichthon, meaning "earth-shaker". Athena defeated Poseidon in their famous contest for the allegiance of Athens. While Poseidon offered humanity the boon of the horse, Athena offered the olive. Elsewhere, he helped Apollo build the walls of Troy. However, he became an implacable enemy of Troy after Laomedon refused to pay him, and he sided with the Greeks in the Trojan War. Poseidon was closely associated with horses as Hippios ("of horses"), and the horse was sacred to him. He fathered many famous horses, including the winged Pegasus by the Gorgon Medusa, and another winged horse, Areon, by Erinys. In Corinth, horse-races were held in his honour. On Argos horses were sacrificed to him by drowning in a whirlpool. Poseidon was generally depicted as an older, bearded man carrying a trident (the three-pronged fisherman's spear). There were temples at Cape Sunium, the southern-most tip of Greece, at Pylos in Crete, and Mount Mykale in Greek Anatolia. Freshwater springs were often consecrated to Poseidon as well. As an oracular deity, he had an oracle at Cape Tainairon and, according to one tradition, he was the first keeper of the oracle at Delphi. Regattas were held in his honour off Cape Sunium. Poseidon's chief festival was the Isthmia, scene of the Isthmian Games, celebrated near the Isthmus of Corinth.
Reply:poseidon was the god of the sea and of horses, people counted on him for fair weaather while at sea. he gave birth to the cyclops and the nymphs and such, brother of zuez and hades, he was given the control of sea when zues defeated cronos . he usually always has a trident and sailors feared him and usually chose to sacrifice nd worship him.


good luck hpe i helped


i suppose he affected the mortal world on the seas behavior and thats about it



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