Poseidon is bad tempered, violent, vindictive, destructive and dangerous. His temperament is his most characteristic feature. His major symbolic animals were horses and bulls. He was also linked with earthquakes and called the Earth-Shaker. He was pictured as a powerful looking male with a big beard, holding a trident. Poseidon was portrayed as the God of the Sea, and was known by the Romans as Neptune. The carrier of the trident was expected to be a man who is the husband of the Maiden, Mother and Crone, who coexist in these ways: As her mate for life, he is husband to the maiden he married, then to the mother of his children, and in old age to the wise woman that she becomes.
It is also a statement about his sexuality and fertility. Poseidon’s trident was the symbolic triple phallus, signifying his function to mate with the triple Goddess. His symbolic animal was the horse, which represents the beauty and the power of physical instincts. Water and emotions are symbolically linked, thus making the sea the perfect realm for Poseidon, who reacted emotionally and intensely whenever he was provoked. Various feelings of apprehension or all out fears and doubts that lie beyond what is personally known are in the collective unconscious, in the dark depths of our selves. Mount Olympus was believed to be the home of the gods, and it acted as a link between the world of the gods and the world of humanity.The ocean in dreams and metaphor represent the unconscious, memories and emotions easily remembered, retrieved, and personal, which lie just below the surface. The surface represented the world of humanity, the sky was represented by Zeus, and the underground was represented by Hades. Through these concepts, the Greeks were attempting to explain their relationship with verticality. Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth, while air and sky and clouds were the portion that fell to Zeus but earth and great Olympus are the common property of all. When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea forevermore. Heaven and earth were divided into three parts, and each of us was to have an equal share. We were three brothers whom Rhea bore to Cronus - Zeus, myself and Hades who rules the world below.
In book XV of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, Poseidon explains how it turned out: As the story goes, when the world was divided among the three brothers, each got one part to rule over. Together, these three brothers came to be associated with the sky, the surface, and the underground, respectively. He was a son of the titan Cronus, along with Poseidon and Hades. At the heart of it all is Zeus, the father of the gods. Greek mythology tells the story of these gods, including their complex family trees and tales of their interactions with each other and humanity. The Ancient Greeks were polytheistic, meaning they believed in many gods. An example of the latter is the Ancient Greek gods Zeus and Hades.
An example of the former is the Christian idea of heaven and hell. Typically, they’re either represented by an abstract concept or a god. These three concepts represent something primal for humans, and throughout history we’ve attached myriad meanings and stories to the relationship between them. Nearly all ancient belief systems are based on the surface, the underground, and the sky in some way.
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