Transcript Poseidon By Kazim - Fulham Primary School, Halford Road

Poseidon By Kazim
POSEIDON: THE GOD OF THE SEA OF TIDAL WAVES, AND
OF EARTHQUAKES HE WAS OFTEN REPRESENTED AS
HAVING THE TAIL OF A FISH AND ARMED WITH A
TRIDENT AS POSEIDON-HIPPIOS, HE ALSO RULED
HORSES. THE 8TH CENTURY POET HESIOD TOLD MANY
LEGENDS OF THE GOD. HE TELLS HOW ZEUS WAS
POSEIDON AND HADES. TOGETHER THEY REBELLED
AGAINST THE OLDER GODS AND CAST THEM OUT. ZEUS
BECAME LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH POSEIDON
BECAME GOD OF THE SEA AND HADES BECAME KING OF
THE UNDERWORLD.
Poseidons Weapon
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ONE OF THE PRIMARY SYMBOLS OF THE SEA GOD
POSEIDON WAS THE TRIDENT. AS HIS PERSONAL WEAPON, HE COULD USE IT TO
CREATE THUNDERSTORMS AND STRONG TIDAL WAVES. IT WAS CREATED BY THE
CYCLOPES AND GIVEN TO POSEIDON AS A GIFT AFTER HIS BROTHER ZEUS FREED
THEM FROM TARTARUS. DURING THE CHALLENGE OF POSEIDON IN GOD OF WAR,
KRATOS FINDS THIS MAGICAL TRIDENT WITHIN POSEIDON'S CHAMBER. WITH IT, HE
CAN DIVE UNDERWATER, AND CAN SWIM AND BREATHE INFINITELY. THE TRIDENT
THEN BECOMES A MUCH NEEDED ITEM TO TRAVERSE THE REST OF PANDORA'S
TEMPLE. IN GOD OF WAR II, KRATOS HAS THE TRIDENT IN HIS POSSESSION AT THE
VERY BEGINNING OF THE GAME, AND USES IT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE
ADVENTURE. KRATOS HOLDS POSSESSION OVER POSEIDON'S TRIDENT IN GOD OF
WAR III, BUT NEEDS THE SOUL OF A GOD BEFORE HE CAN USE THE TRIDENT, AS THE
RIVER STYX WOULD BE DEADLY TO MORTALS AND DEMIGODS ALIKE.
Pictures Of Poseidon..
Pictures of His Trident
What Poseidon Wears…
POSEIDON IS USUALLY SHOWN AS WEARING NOTHING AT ALL, OR POSSIBLY JUST A CROWN, ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES
HE IS SHOWN WEARING A KIND OF BATTLE HELMET AND POSSIBLY A CLOAK. THOUGH OFTEN DEPICTED NAKED, HE
ALSO WEARS CLOTHING TYPICAL OF ANCIENT GREECE, SUCH AS THE HIMATION OR THE CHITON. THESE WERE
SIMPLY TUNICS OR PIECES OF FABRIC FOLDED AND DRAPED IN VARIOUS WAYS, SOMETIMES LONG AND
SOMETIMES SHORT. NEARLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM ZEUS, ARTISTS PORTRAY HIM WITH A BROAD FACE, FULL
HEAD OF WAVY HAIR AND A LONG CURLY BEARD. OCCASIONALLY, TO SET HIM APART AS GOD OF THE SEA, HE
WEARS A CROWN OF SEAWEED. AS ONE OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT SEA ANIMALS, THE DOLPHIN SEEMS AN
APPROPRIATE SYMBOL FOR THE SEA GOD. OCCASIONALLY, DOLPHINS PULL HIS CHARIOT INSTEAD OF
HIPPOCAMPI, OR POSEIDON WILL BE SHOWN STANDING ON A DOLPHIN. POSEIDON OFTEN RIDES A CHARIOT
PULLED BY HIPPOCAMPI, MYTHICAL CREATURES THAT ARE PART HORSE AND PART FISH. SOMETIMES, THEY ARE
ALSO WINGED, AS AT THE FAMOUS TREVI FOUNTAIN IN ROMETHE TRIDENT, OR THREE-POINTED SPEAR, THROUGH
WHICH HE COULD CHANNEL HIS POWER, EASILY DISTINGUISHES POSEIDON FROM THE OTHER GREEK GODS. WITH
IT HE COULD COMMAND THE WAVES AND WIND AND CREATE EARTHQUAKES
Pictures Of Poseidon Clothes and Add-Ins