Poseidon

Poseidon is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek

mythology. His main domain is the ocean, and he is called the "God of the Sea". Where in
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he is referred to as "Earth-Shaker" due to his role in causing earthquakes, and has been
called the "tamer of horses". He is usually depicted as an older male with curly hair and
beard.
The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin
for Neptune in Roman mythology; both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon In terms of
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employees. Linear B tablets show that Poseidon was venerated at Pylos and Thebes in pre-
Olympian Bronze Age Greece as a chief deity, but he was integrated into Olympian
gods as the brother of Zeus and Hade. According to
some folklore, he was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of
lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which was devoured by Cronos.
There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities,
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According to the references from his dialogue Timeous and Critias, the island
of Atlantis was the chosen domain of Poseidon.
The earliest attested occurrence of the name, written in Linear B, is Po-se-da-o or Po-
se-da-wo-ne, which correspond to Poseidon and Poseidawonos in Mycenaean Greek;
in Homeric Greek it appears A common epithet of Poseidon Earth-shaker," an epithet
which is also This recalls his later epithets Ennosidas and Ennosigaios indicating the
chthonic nature of Poseidon.
The origins of the name "Poseidon" are unclear. One theory breaks it down into an
element meaning "husband" or "lord" and another element meaning "earth", producing
something like lord or spouse of Da, i.e. of the earth; this would link with Demeter?
"Earth-mother. Walter Burkert finds that "the second element da- remains hopelessly
ambiguous" and finds a "husband of Earth" reading "quite impossible to prove. Who has
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Another theory interprets the second element as related to the word dawon, "water";
this would make Posei-dawn into the master of waters. When is "National Voters Day"
celebrated in India, There is also the possibility that the word has Pre-Greek origin. Plato in
his dialogue Cratylus gives two alternative etymologies: either the sea restrained Poseidon
when walking as a foot-bond or he knew many things.r


If surviving Linrearr B clay tablets can be trusted, the name po-se-da-wo-
ne ("Poseidon") occurs with greater frequency than does di-u-ja ("Zeus"). A feminine
variant, po-se-de-ia, is also found, indicating a lost consort goddess, in effect a precursor
of Amphritrite. Poseidon carries frequently the title wa-na-ka ( wanax) in Linrear
B inscriptions, as king of the underworld. The chthonic nature of Poseidon-Wanax is also
indicated by his title E-ne-si-da-o-ne in Mycenean Knossos and Pylos.r a powerful
attribute (earthquakes had accompanied the collapse of the Minoan palace-culture). In the
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related with the cult of Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. Tablets from Pylos record
sacrificial goods destined for "the Two Queens and Poseidon" ("to the Two Queens and the
King" :wa-na-ssoi, wa-na-ka-te). The "Two Queens" may be related
with Demeter and Persephone, or their precursors, goddesses who were not associated with
Poseidon in later periods. The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth
of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia,
noted by Pausanias (2nd century AD) as having fallen into desuetude; the violated Demeter
was Demeter Erinys.
It is possible that Demeter appears as Da-ma-te in ,In the heavily sea-dependent
Mycenaean culture, no connection between What is the full form of HAL Poseidon and
the sea has yet surfaced, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons; Zeus
was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount
Olympus belonging to all three.


given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked
situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita Telecom Commission
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in rural areas has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European
horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the
Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was
assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean
sea deities such as Conversely, Walter suggests that the Hellene cult worship of Poseidon
as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from
Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC.
In any case, the early importance of Poseidon can still be glimpsed
in Homer's Odyssey, where Poseidon rather than Zeus is the major mover of events.
Poseidon was the second son of. In most accounts he is swallowed by Cronus at birth but
later with his other brothers and sisters, by Zeus. Which bank opened 101 Gramin
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did not share the fate of his other brother and sisters who were eaten by Cronus. He was
saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to
have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour.
According to or nurse of Poseidon was who denied knowing where he was, when
Cronus came searching..

According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in
three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Which bank entered the unsecured
portfolio of credit segment by tying up with AmericanExpress Poseidon the sea. In
the Odyssey (v.398), Poseidon has a home in Aegae. Athena became the patron goddess of
the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon. Yet Poseidon remained a numinous
presence on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, At the dissolution festival at the
end of the year in the Athenian calendar, the Skira, the priests of Athena and the priest of
Poseidon would process under canopies to Eleusis.[25] They agreed that each would give
the Athenians one gift and the Athenians would choose whichever gift they preferred.
Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up; the water was salty and
not very useful, whereas Athena offered them an olive tree.
The Athenians or their king, Cecrops, accepted the olive tree and along with it Athena
as their patron, for the olive tree
brought wood, oil and food. After the fight, infuriated at his loss, Poseidon sent a
monstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him. The
depression made by Poseidon's trident and fill FIPB cleared IKEAs project, the largest
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the northern hall of the Erechtheum, remaining open to the air. "In cult, Poseidon was
identified with Erechtheus," Walter Burkert noted; "the myth turns this into a temporal-
causal sequence: in his anger at losing, Poseidon led his son Eumolpus against Athens and
killed Erectheus."[27]
The contest of Athena and Poseidon was the subject
of the reliefs on the western pediment of the Parthenon, the first sight that greeted the
arriving visitor.
This myth is construed by Robert Graves and others as reflecting a clash between the
inhabitants during Mycenaean times and newer immigrants. It is interesting to note that
Athens at its height was a significant sea power, at one point defeating the Persian fleet
at Salamis Island
Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus by their rebellion in Hera's scheme, were
temporarily stripped of their divine authority and sent to serve King r of Troy. He had them
build huge walls around the city and promised to reward them well, a promise Which city
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decades he then refused to fulfill. In vengeance, before the Trojan War, Poseidon sent a sea
monster to attack Troy. The monster was later killed by Poseidon was said to have had
many lovers of both sexes (see expandable list below). His consort was Amphitrite,

a nymph and ancient sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus and Doris. Poseidon was the father
of many heroes. He is thought to have fathered the famed Theseus. A mortal woman
named Tyro was married to Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) but
loved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances. One day,
Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus, and from their union were
born the heroesPelias and Neleus, twin boys. Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, his
granddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begetting
the Attic hero Hippothoon. Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned her
into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis.
Poseidon rescued Amymone from a lecherous satyr and then fathered a
child, Nauplius, by her.
After having raped Caeneus, Poseidon fulfilled her request and changed her into a
male warrior.
A mortal woman named Cleito once lived on an isolated island; Poseidon fell in love
with the human mortal and created a How many Indian Americans are among the
recipients of the prestigious Marshall Scholarships dwelling sanctuary at the top of a hill
near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to
protect her. She gave birth to five sets of twin boys(the firstborn who being named Atlas)
became the first rulers of Atlantis.
Not all of Poseidon's children were human. In an archaic myth, Poseidon once
pursued Demeter. She spurned his advances, turning herself into amare so that she could
hide in a herd of horses; he saw through the deception and became
a stallion and captured her. Their child was a horse,Arion, which was capable of human
speech. Poseidon also had sexual intercourse with on the floor of a temple to Athena.
In ancient Greek mythology, was a sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon. Under the
influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was
further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea. In Roman mythology,
the consort of Neptune, a comparatively minor figure, was Salacia, the goddess of
saltwater.
Amphitrite was a daughter of Others called her the personification of the sea itself.
Amphitrite's offspring included sea and dolphins.[6] Poseidon and Amphitrite had a
son, Triton who was a merman, and a daughter,Rhode (if this Rhode was not actually
fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of s as others
claim). Bibliotheca (3.15.4) also mentions a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite named
Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: "out on the open sea, in
Amphitrite's breakers" (Odyssey iii.101), "moaning Amphitrite" nourishes fishes "in
numbers past all counting" (Odyssey xii.119). She shares her Homeric Maximum branches

of the Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are in _____ areas epithet Halosydne ("sea-
nourished") with Thetis in some sense the sea-nymphs are doublets. Though Amphitrite
does not figure in Greek cultus, at an archaic stage she was of outstanding importance, for
in theHomeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, she appears at the birthing of Apollo among "all
the chiefest of the goddesses, Dioneand Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning
Amphitrite." Theseus in the submarine halls of his father Poseidon saw the daughters of
Nereus dancing with liquid feet, and "august, ox-eyed Amphitrite", who wreathed him with
her wedding wreath, according to a fragment of Bacchylides. Jane Ellen
Harrison recognized in the poetic
treatment an authentic echo of Amphitrite's early importance: "It would have been
much simpler for Poseidon to recognize his own son... the myth belongs to that early
stratum of mythology when Poseidon was not yet god of the sea, or, at least, no-wise
supreme thereAmphitrite and the Nereids ruled there, with their servants the Tritons.
Even so late as the Iliad Amphitrite is not yet 'Neptuni uxor'" [Neptune's wife]".
Amphitrite, "the third one who encircles [the
sea]", was so entirely confined in her authority to the
sea and the creatures in it that she was almost never
associated with her husband, either for purposes of worship or in works of art, except
when he was to be distinctly regarded as the god who controlled the sea. An exception may
be the cul Burkert Who became the first Woman President of FICCI t image of Amphitrite
that Pausanias saw in the temple of Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth (ii.1.7).
Pindar, in his sixth Olympian Ode, recognized Poseidon's role as "great god of the sea,
husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the India has signed 11 pacts entailing investments
worth 5.2 billion US dollars with golden spindle." For later poets, Amphitrite became
simply a metaphor for the sea: Euripides, in Cyclops (702) and Ovid, Metamorphoses,
(i.14).
Eustathius said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at Naxos among the other
Nereids, and carried her off. But in another version of the myth, she fled from his
advances to Atlas, at the farthest ends of the sea; there the dolphin of Poseidon sought her
through the islands of the sea, and finding her, spoke persuasively on behalf of Poseidon, if
we may believe Hyginus and was rewarded by being placed among the stars as the
constellation Delphinus.
In the arts of vase-painting and mosaic, Amphitrite was distinguishable from the
other Nereids only by her queenly attributes. In works of art, both ancient ones and post-
Renaissance paintings, Amphitrite is represented either enthroned beside Poseidon or
driving with him in a chariot drawn by sea-horses (hippocamps) or other fabulous creatures
of the deep, and attended by Tritons andNereids. She is dressed in queenly robes and has
nets in her hair. The pincers of a crab are sometimes shown attached to her temples.
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. Her Roman
equivalent is the goddess Venus. According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born

when Cronus cut off Uranus's genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from the
sea foam (aphros). According to Homer's Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione.
Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their rivalry over her
would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus married Pual torday
who died recently was a her toHephaestus, who, because of his ugliness and deformity,
was not seen as a thr eat. Aphrodite had many loversboth gods, such as Ares, and men,
such as Anchises. She played a role in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was
both Adonis's lover and his surrogate mother. Many lesser beings were said to be children
of Aphrodite.
Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus)
after the two cult sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed to be her place of
birth. Myrtle, doves, sparrows, horses, and swans were said to be sacred to her. The
ancient Greeks identified her with the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor.[5]
Aphrodite had many other names, such as Acidalia, Cytherea and Cerigo, each used
by a different local cult of the goddess in Greece. The Greeks recognized all of these
names as referring to the single goddess Aphrodite, despite the slight differences in what
these local cults believed the goddess demanded of them. The Attic philosop IEX stands
for hers of the 4th century, however, drew a distinction between a celestial Aphrodite
(Aprodite Urania) of transcendent principles, and a separate, "common" Aphrodite who
was the goddess of the people (Aphrodite Pandemos).
Aphrodite, perhaps altered after aphrs () "foam", stems from the more
archaic Cretan Aphordta and Cypriot Aphorodta, and was probably ultimately
borrowed from Cypriot Phoenician. Herodotus and Pausanias recorded that
Aphrodite's oldest non-Greek temple lay in the Syrian city ofAscalon where she was
known as Ourania, an obvious reference to Astarte. This suggests that Aphrodite's cult
located at Cythera-Cyprus came from the Phoenicians. The fact that one of Aphrodite's
chief centers of worship remained on the southwestern Cypriot coast settled by
Phoenicians, where the goddess had long been worshiped as Ashtart (trt), points to the
transmission of Aphrodite's original cult from Phoenicia to Cyprus then to mainland
Greece.[7] So far, however, attempts to derive the name from Aphrodite's Semitic
precursor have been inconclusive.
A number of folk etymologies have been proposed through the
ages. Hesiod derives Aphrodite from aphrs "foam," interpreting the name as "risen from
the foam".[8][9] Janda (2010), accepting this as genuine, claims the foam birth myth as
an Indo-European mytheme. Janda intereprets the name as a compound aphrs "foam"
+ datai "[she] seems, shines" (infinitive meaning "she who shines from the foam [ocean]",
supposedly a byname of Eos, the dawn goddess. Likewise, Mallory and Adams (1997)
propose an Indo-European compound *abor- "very" and *dei- "to shine", also referring to
Eos. However, etymologies based on comparison with Eos are unlikely since Aphrodite's
attributes are entirel

y different from those of Eos (or Vedic Ushas).[13] Finally, the medieval Etymologicum
Magnum offers a highly contrived folk etymology, deriving Aphrodite from the
compound habrodaitos (), "she who lives delicately", from habrs + daita.
The alteration from b to ph is explained as a "familiar" characteristic of Greek "obvious
from the Macedonians",despite of course that the name cannot be of Macedonian origin.
A number of improbable non-Greek etymologies have been suggested in scholarship.
One Semitic etymology compares Aphrodite to the Assyrianbarrtu, the name of a female
demon that appears in Middle Babylonian and Late Babylonian texts Hammarstrm looks
to Etruscan, comparing (e)prni "lord", an Etruscan honorific loaned into Greek
as . This would make the theonym in origin an honorific, "the lady".Hjalmar
Frisk and Robert Beekes (2010) rejects this etymology as implausible, especially him Who
is the Director of Life of Pisince Aphrodite actually appears in Etruscan in the borrowed
form Apru (from Greek Aphro, clipped form of Aphrodite).

Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near her chief center of worship, Paphos, on
the island of Cyprus, which is why she is sometimes called "Cyprian", especially in the
poetic works of Sappho. However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island
of Cythera, hence another of her names, "Cytherea" Cythera was a stopping place for trade
and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the
migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.

in the most famous version of her myth, her birth was the consequence of a
castration: Cronus severed Uranus' genitals and threw them behind him into the sea. The
foam from his genitals gave rise to Aphrodite (hence her name, meaning "foam-arisen"),
while the Erinyes (furies), and the Meliaeemerged from the drops of his
blood. Hesiod states that the genitals "were carried over the sea a long time, and white

foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew." The girl, Aphrodite, floated ashor
Who is the author of the book Our India e on a scallop shell. This iconic representation
of Aphrodite as a mature "Venus rising from was made famous in a much-admired painting
by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Elder. Of "Dios",
the genitive form case of Zeus, and could be taken to mean simply "the goddess" in a
generic sense. Aphrodite might, then, be an equivalent of Rhea, the Earth Mother, whom
Homer relocated to Olympus.
In Homer, Aphrodite ventures into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded
by Diomedesk and returns to her mother to sink down at her knee and be comforted.
Aphrodite is consistently portrayed, in every image and story, as having had no
childhood, and instead being born as a nubile, infinitely desirable adult. She is often
depicted nude. In many of the later myths, she is portrayed as vain, In financial terms CBS
Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities,
stands for ill-tempered and easily offended. Although she is marriedshe is one of the
few gods in the Greek Pantheon who isshe is frequently unfaithful to her husband.
but in the Odyssey she is portrayed as preferring Ares, the volatile god of war because
she is attracted to his violent nature. Aphrodite is one of a few characters in the Odyssey
whose actions are a major contributing cause of the Trojan War: she offers Helen of
Troy to Paris, and as the goddess of desire, she is responsible for Paris becoming so
inflamed with desire for Helen at first sight that he is moved to abduct her.
Olympus, deeming him too ugly and deformed to inhabit the home of the gods. His
revenge is to trap his mother in a magic throne. In return for her release, he demands to be
given Aphrodite's hand in marriage.
According to one version of Aphrodite's story, because of her immense beauty Zeus
fears that the other gods will become violent with each other in their rivalry to possess her.
To forestall this, he forces her to marry Hephaestus, the dour, humorless god of smithing.
In another version of the story, Aphrodite marries Hephaestus after hi Which is the first
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Hephaestus is overjoyed to be married to the goddess of beauty, and forges her beautiful
jewelry, including the cestus, a girdle that makes her even more irresistible to men. Her
unhappiness with her marriage causes Aphrodite to seek other male companionship, most
often Ares, but also sometimes Adonis.
Aphrodite was Adonis' lover and a surrogate mother to him. Cinyras, the King
of Cyprus, had an Intoxicatingly beautiful daughter named M is Name the player of Indian
cricket team who 4 January 2013 was named as CEAT International Cricketer of the Year
2012 yrrha. When Myrrha's mother commits hubris against Aphrodite by claiming her
daughter is more beautiful than the famed goddess, Myrrha is Punished with a never-ending

lust for her own father. Cinyras is repulsed by this, but myrrha disguises herself as a
prostitute, and secretly sleeps with her father at night.
Eventually, Myrrha becomes pregnant and is discovered by Cinyras. In a rage, he
chases her out of the house with a knife. Myrrha flees from him, praying to the gods for
mercy as she runs. The gods hear her plea, and change her into a myrrh tree so her father
cannot kill her. Eventually, Cinyras takes his own life in an attempt to restore the family's
honor.
Myrrha gives birth to a baby boy named Adonis. Aphrodite happens by the myrrh tree
and, seeing him, takes pity on the infant. She places Adonis in a box, and takes him down
to hades so Persephone can care for him. Adonis grows into a strikingly handsome young
man, and Aphrodite eventually returns for him. Persephone, however, is loath to give him
up, and wishes Adonis would stay with her in the underworld. The two goddesses begin
such a quarrel, Zeus is forced to intercede. He decrees that Adonis will spend a third of the
year with Aphrodite, a third of the year with Persephone, and a third of the year with
whomever he wishes. Adonis, of course, chooses Aphrodite.



Adonis begins his year on the earth with Aphrodite. One of his greatest passions is
hunting, and although Aphrodite is not naturally a hunter, she takes up the sport just so she
can be with him. They spend every waking hour with one another, and Aphrodite is
enraptured with him. However, her anxiety begins to grow over her neglected duties, and
she is forced to leave him for a short time. Before she leaves, she gives Adonis one
Recently footprints of dinosaurs were spotted in which Indian city warning: do not attack
an animal, which shows no fear. Adonis agrees to her advice, but, secretly doubting her
skills as a huntress, quickly forgets her warning.
Not long after Aphrodite leaves, Adonis comes across an enormous wild boar, much
larger than any he has ever seen. It is suggested that the boar is the god Ares, one of
Aphrodites lovers made jealous through her constant doting on Adonis. Although boars
are dangerous and will charge a hunter if provoked, Adonis disregards Aphrodites
warning and pursues the giant creature. Soon, however, Adonis is the one being pursued;
he is no match for the giant boar.
In the attack, Adonis is castrated by the boar, and dies from a loss of blood. Aphrodite
rushes back to his side, but she is too late to save him and can only mourn over his body.
Wherever Adonis' blood falls, Aphrodite causes anemones to grow in his memory. She
vows that on the anniversary of his death, every year there will be a festival held in his
honor.
On his death, Adonis goes back to the underworld, and Persephone is delighted to see
him again. Eventually, Aphrodite realizes he is there, and rushes back to retrieve him.
Again, she and Persephone bicker over who is allowed to keep Adonis until Zeus
intervenes. This time, he says Adonis must spend six months with Aphrodite and six
months with Persephone, the way it should have been in the first place.
The gods and goddesses, as well as various mortals, were invited to the marriage
of Peleus and Thetis (the eventual parents of Achilles). Only the goddess Eris (Discord)
was not invited, but she arrived with a golden apple inscribed Name the Indian bank which
has got license recently to open branch in new York with the wordkallistei ("to the fairest
one"), which she threw among the goddesses. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena all claimed to
be the fairest, and thus the rightful owner of the apple.



The goddesses chose to place the matter before Zeus, who, not wanting to favor one
of the goddesses, put the choice into the hands of Paris. After bathing in the spring
of Mount Ida (where Troy was situated), the goddesses appeared before Paris. Having
been given permission by Zeus to set any conditions he saw fit, Paris required the
goddesses to undress before him to be evaluated. (Alternatively, the goddesses
themselves chose to disrobe.) Still, Paris could not decide, as all three were ideally
beautiful, so the goddesses resorted to bribes.
Hera tried to bribe Paris with control over all Asia and Europe, while Athena offered
wisdom, fame, and glory in battle, and Aphrodite offered the most beautiful mortal
woman in the world as a wife, and he accordingly chose her. This woman was Helen,
who was, unfortunately for Paris, already married to King Menelaus of Sparta. The other
two goddesses were enraged by this, and through Helen's abduction by Paris, they
brought about the Trojan War.