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In a rarer - and later- version, Poseidon avoided being devoured by his father as his mother Rhea saved him in the same manner she did Zeus, by offering Cronus a foal instead, claiming she had given birth to a horse instead of a god, while she had actually laid the child in a flock. [171] Rhea entrusted her infant to a spring nymph.
Poseidon sent many creatures to find her. A dolphin came across Amphitrite and convinced her to marry Poseidon. As a reward for the dolphin's help, Poseidon created the Delphinus constellation. [8] Eustathius said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids, [9] and carried her off. [10]
Halia was a daughter of Thalassa (the personification of the sea), and sister to the Telchines; it is not clear who her father was, if she had one at all. [3]The sea-god Poseidon fell in love with Halia, and fathered six sons and one daughter, Rhodos, on her, [4] who later became the wife of the sun-god Helios and the one after whom the island of Rhodes was named.
Persephone; raped by her uncle Hades and in Orphic tradition by her father Zeus disguised as a snake or as Hades himself. This resulted in the birth of Zagreus and Melinoë. Philomela; raped by her brother-in-law Tereus. Procris; raped by Minos. Rhea; raped by her son Zeus. Tyro; raped by Poseidon in the form of her beloved, the river-god Enipeus.
There she poured a libation to Sphairos, Pelops' charioteer, and laid with Poseidon in the night. Aethra was therefore impregnated by both Aegeus [7] and Poseidon [8] in the process. According to Plutarch, her father spread this report merely that Theseus might be regarded as the son of Poseidon, who was much revered at Troezen. [9]
To prove that he was indeed the son of Poseidon, Polyphemus called out to his father commanding that Odysseus never reach his home. In the Odyssey, Poseidon is a powerful and respected elder god, as none of the other Olympian gods dare to mention Odysseus and his predicaments whilst Poseidon is there to hear it. The council of gods that decided ...
Poseidon's punishment: Cassiopeia as a constellation sitting in the heavens tied to a chair. Hyginus, Poeticon Astronomicon. "U.S. Naval Observatory Library" Cassiopeia (/ ˌ k æ s i. oʊ ˈ p iː. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κασσιόπεια Kassiópeia, Modern Greek: Κασσιόπη Kassiópē) or Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια Kassiépeia), a figure in Greek mythology, was Queen of ...
Writing during the second century A.D., Pausanias spoke of Demeter as having two daughters; Kore being born first, before Despoina was born, with Zeus being the father of Kore and Poseidon as the father of Despoina. Pausanias made it clear that Kore is Persephone, although he did not reveal Despoina's proper name.