Greek gods: Poseidon
March 11, 2010 by Megatron
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Poseidon was a very powerful, competitive, and hot-tempered Greek God. You would not want to get on the bad side of a God but Poseidon was known to take revenge on those who got on his bad side. Poseidon has the ability to summon earthquakes with his giant trident, gave him the name Earth Shaker’ due to his relationship with the earth and the sea.
Cronus (Kronos) and Rhea were mother and father to Poseidon and his siblings. However fearing the prophecy that one of his children will overthrow him, he swallowed his each of his newborn children so that the prophecy will not come to pass. Unknown to Cronus, Rhea had hidden Zeus under a herd of lambs, he tricked Cronus into drinking emetic form of poison that made him vomit up his siblings together they overthrew Cronus.
After Zeus, Hades and Poseidon dethroned Cronus and imprisoning the titans, the brother’s decided who will rule which realm of the earth. Poseidon ruled the ocean, Hades ruled the underworld and Zeus the heavens. However, during the early days of Zeus’s rule, Poseidon and Apollo begun a plot to bring down Zeus because they were not happy with his performance as supreme ruler. But soon after, they were caught by Zeus and were sentence to transform into mortals and build a wall around Troy.
Poseidon wanted the king of Troy to pay tribute to him for building this wall but the king failed to do so. Poseidon became angry and punished the city with a monster but he was later slain by Hercules.
Whenever someone mortal or a God displeases Poseidon, he always managed to punish him or her. The King of Crete, pleased with Poseidon for a bull to sacrifice in Poseidon’s name. Poseidon granted his wish and provided one of his finest bulls. Yet, the king became quite fond of the bull and decided to let the bull live. Poseidon was heated to say the least, and ask Aphrodite to make the king’s wife fall in love with the bull. The outcome of their love, came the birth of Minotaur, half-man and half- bull. The king kept Minotaur a secret from the rest of the kingdom.
Poseidon was originally the God of Fertility, so it would only natural for him to have a sexual appetite for women. But unlike his brother Zeus, who would charm or trick women into bed, Poseidon would physically force them to lay down with him. His first victim’ was Athena, goddess of War. Poseidon lost the fight to win Athens over Athena and to make matters worse he was unsuccessful to court with her.
So to spite Athena, he was found in the arms of the beautiful Medusa, courting with her in the temple of Athena. Athena was furious with this and turned Medusa’s hair into snakes. Demeter is one of Poseidon’s infamous rapes, she tried to escape his affection by turning into a horse, yet Poseidon knew of this and turned himself into a stallion and raped her amongst the herd. Yet it has been argued that amongst Mythologist that, for Demeter wanted to put off Poseidon, so she made him create the most beautiful creature on earth, it took him many attempts so by the time he created the horse, he literally had not energy let alone passion for Demeter.
Poseidon did fall in love with Amphitrite, a sea goddess. He did what he knew best and raped her but when she ran and hide at the bottom of the ocean, he knew it was more than a physical attraction. He called upon Delphinus to help him find her and plead with her to marry Poseidon. She agreed and become his Queen.
It wasn’t long before she begun to pick up Poseidon’s jealous traits, Poseidon begun womanising again, this time with Scylla, but Amphitrite threw herbs into the sea whilst he was washing, turning her into a hideous beast of the sea. She is known to be one of the feared monsters of the ocean.