Poseidon God of the sea…

Good morning I´m Poseidon a violent and ill-

tempered god of the sea. One of the Twelve
Olympians, I was also feared as the provoker
of earthquakes and worshipped as the creator
of the horse. I am hot-blooded deity,I had
many disputes with both gods and men, most
famously with Athena and Odysseus. I ruled
over the Sea, the Earthquakes, the Floods, the
Storms and the Horses.

Poseidon's Portrayal and Symbolism

I´m nowadays known exclusively as a sea god,
but in ancient times, I may have been the god
of the earth and fertility or even the supreme
god of the sky at least for the Greeks.

Oftentimes, I´m depicted riding a four-horse

chariot and wielding a trident over the waves.
The trident is one of my most recognizable
emblem. It is said that I struck a rock with my
trident to create the very first horse. My sacred
animals were the Dolphin, the Horse and the
Bull while my sacred plants were the Pine tree
and the Celery.

Poseidon in Greek mythology

I am the second son of my father Cronus and

my mother Rhea (after my brother Hades) and
their penultimate child.
After being born, I was swallowed by my father
Cronus because of a prophesy that said Cronus'
children would someday overthrow him. But
them I was eventually saved by my younger
brother Zeus.After some time I decided to
joined to my brother Zeus in the fight against
Cronus and the Titans, a fight in which were us
the younger gods victorious. It was that
moment in which my brothers Zeus, Hades
and me divided, according to Homer, the
government of the earth. While Zeus chose the
heavens as his sphere of influence and Hades
chose the underworld and the abodes of the
dead, I became the sovereign king of the
waters. It is in this facet of me the lord of the
seas that the ancient Greeks worshiped me in a
majority way. However, my powers did not
end there, because, according to a very ancient
tradition, I wwas also responsible for
earthquakes and earth movements, possibly
when the ancient Greeks related these
phenomena to some type of alteration in
groundwater on which the world floated.

Now I´m going to talk when I fighted with

athena
After some time as the city of Athens grew
more powerful, Athena and me FIGHTed FOR
THE PATRONAGE OF ATHENS we set our sights
on it and wished to become the patron and
protector of this polis. To settle the conflict, we
both decided to offer the city a gift, so that it
was the Athenians themselves who decided on
the issue. In the presence of Cecrops, king of
the Athenians, I decided to struck the ground
with my trident and caused a fountain of
water to flow from the ground. Howeve my
power was limited to sea waters, so the source
I made go out was salt water. Athena, in turn,
taught Cecrops the secrets of olive cultivation,
a tree that offered the Athenians both the
possibility of feeding themselves directly with
its fruit, the olives, and the alternative of its
elaboration to produce oil. Cecrops,
enthusiastic about the economic possibilities of
the new cultivation, gave victory to Athena,
who thus became the protector and the main
divinity of the city of Athens. I got really angry
so I caused the fountain that had flowed under
my trident to flood a part of Attica with its salty
waters. I was not satisfied with this revenge, so
I made one of my sons attack Athens and end
the life of the son and successor of Cecrops.
Despite this angry response, the Athenians, a
people with a seafaring vocation, maintained
the cult of me throughout their history, in
territories such as Cape Sounion, where even
today we can see the magnificent temple
dedicated to me the god of the oceans.
Now we are going to talk about THE WALLS OF
TROY and its creation. As punishment for
offending Zeus, I was condemned with my
nephew Apollo to serve Laomedon, king of
Troy, in the services that he required.
Laomedon asked me and my nephew to build
colossal walls in his city that no mortal would
be able to destroy. In return, he promised us a
great deal of rewards and sacrifices in our
honor. Once we built the wall , the king forgot
to keep his promise, ignoring the threats with
us so as punishment, I sent a sea monster
named Cetus to Troy that destroyed its shores
for years and years , until Heracles killed it.
Even so, the narcissist that I was, I destroyed
the fortifications built by the Greeks, firmly
believing that my walls are the only buildings
of the type worthy to remain. And, mad at me
for blinding one of Odysseues children , I had a
decade-long feud with one of the greatest
Greek heroes, Odysseus.
Poseidon’s relationships
Ancient sources tell us profusely about my
relationships I had with goddesses and
mortals, the result of which was numerous
offspring. Some of the main heroes of Greek
mythology have me as their predecessor,
direct or distant, me the god Poseidon. My
main partner is Amphitrite, a sea divinity
daughter of the god Nereus. A late Higino text
tells us that I discovered Amphitrite on the
island of Naxos, dancing with the rest of the
Nereids, and I immediately fell in love with her.
The young sea nymph, however,she rejected
my marriage proposals and ran away from me,
she took refuge with Atlas at the end of the
world. I was burning in love for her, so I sent
all my servants in search of her. One of my
servants , Delfino, could find Amphitrite and,
with his pleas, convinced her to marry me.
Among the children that I had with Amphitrite
it was believed that some were dolphins and
seals that came from me and that’s how I
created them . My most famous male child was
Triton, a marine divinity who, blowing a conch
shell, could raise great storms or calm the
waters as he wanted. Among the less known
of my female descendants, we must mention
some of my daughters the nymphs of the Rodo
and Bentesicime sea. In total we can say that I
had 14 normal children with multiple partners
cause my love wasn’t for just one woman.

Conclusion
So in conclusion we can say that I was one of
the most iconic, powerful and interesting
Greek gods from Greek mythology that’s it
Thank you for your attention