Poseidon

__**//Poseidon //**__ Poseidon is the great Greek Olympian god of the seas, rivers, horses, earthquakes, floods, and droughts. Poseidon is one of the three major gods, including his brothers Zeus and Hades. Their parents were Cronus and Rhea. Poseidon fathered many children including Triton, a fish-tailed god of the sea. One of his other children was Orion, a giant that could walk on water, and was known as a great hunter. Some of Poseidon’s children were heroes such as his great, great, great, great, great grandson Perseus that slayed Medusa.

Poseidon was a very moody and violent god. Whenever he was angry, waves rose hundreds of stories high, sinking ships and killing people living by the shore. One such moment occurred when King Minos decided he wanted a palace as great as his father-in-law’s. A great architect built him such a wonderful palace that Poseidon grew jealous. Poseidon wanted to be honored since the island was surrounded by his domain, the sea. In order to be honored, he sent a snow-white bull to be sacrificed in his honor. The bull was so beautiful, that Minos’s wife became attached to it. She didn’t want the bull to be sacrificed. When Poseidon heard that the bull was not being sacrificed, just because someone fell in love with it, he became extremely angry. For punishment, he made the bull angry. The bull destroyed most of the island, and continued doing so, until Hercules captured it as one of his twelve labors. In order to further punish the king and queen, Poseidon caused Pasiphae, King Minos’s wife, to give birth to a monster. This monster was the Minotaur, a monster that is half man, half bull. As you see, Poseidon gets very angry when somebody doesn’t obey him, especially when the person is a mortal.

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