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Current Manifestations
Giants
Non-human
Poseidon also takes an interest in personal land transportation, developing out of his connection with horses into cars and motorcycle, and in particular racing them. He is also starting to take an interest in aeronautics, but is concerned Zeus may look on him as infringing on the sky.
Poseidon is not necessarily a friend of men. It is more likely for someone to pray that he will not wreck their ship than for assistance. He jealously protects what is his not just the sea but also his children.
Great Serpent is also a protector of wisdom. Great Serpent holds the knowledge of all things safe, past present and future. This aspect has brought him in conflict with the Celestial Invaders many times as the try and take this wisdom. He has been the target of their direct assaults as the Python of Delphi, and their scions as Fafnir. But Great Serpent survives these assaults to be reborn, sometimes into new aspects of the Celestial Invaders themselves.
Great Serpent is an Anima not a Deiwos. The first god of H. sapiens alone he has done better than Great Cave Bear over the millennia. His capacity for rebirth has helped him to survive repeated defeats at the hands of the Sun. As the bringer of life giving rains and waters Great Serpent has long had an animosity with the drying ever present Sun. Great Serpent has also long been a friend of the Great Mother and Son-Consort, at times being almost indistinguishable from him.
Great Serpent is also a protector of wisdom. Great Serpent holds the knowledge of all things safe, past present and future. This aspect has brought him in conflict with the Celestial Invaders many times as the try and take this wisdom. He has been the target of their direct assaults as the Python of Delphi, and their scions as Fafnir. But Great Serpent survives these assaults to be reborn, sometimes into new aspects of the Celestial Invaders themselves.
Great Serpent is an Anima not a Deiwos. The first god of H. sapiens alone he has done better than Great Cave Bear over the millennia. His capacity for rebirth has helped him to survive repeated defeats at the hands of the Sun. As the bringer of life giving rains and waters Great Serpent has long had an animosity with the drying ever present Sun. Great Serpent has also long been a friend of the Great Mother and Son-Consort, at times being almost indistinguishable from him.
In some versions of the origins of the Olympians, he, like his brother Zeus, did not share the fate of his other brother and sisters who were eaten by Cronus. He was saved by his mother Rhea, who is said to have fed a baby horse to Cronus, serving the same purpose as the rock in Zeus's case.
In some variants, Poseidon was raised by the Telchines on Rhodes, just as Zeus was raised by the Korybantes on Crete.
honor due as Tamer of horses and rescuer of ships
Whirlpool in Argos