Ajax:-
All three Gods, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades have rule over the actual Earth itself. The same goes in fact to the three Goddesses ( Hera, Demeter and Hestia ).

Poseidon is the ultimate ruler of the Sea ( though there are other co-rulers like His own wife Amphitrite and the Old Man of the Sea and the nymphs ) and is said to be the God who causes the Earth to quake. He also rules over freshwater though that rules is also shared with Okeanos, Tethys, Artemis, Apollo, the Potamis, the Okeanids etc.. etc..

vadzhij wrote on 01/09/10 at 19:50:28:


I enjoy efforts at creating archetypes--everybody agrees there are archetypes or "ideas" if you will, but unfortunately nobody can fully agree what they are.

Yes, archetypes do tend to universalize notions, but unfortunately the universality of the results tends to reflect the western world's universe--and that's hardly the only one.

What's overlooked in Poseidon is the report that he spent a great deal of labor in creating all manner of animals.  It's just not Mother Earth that appeared as a generative power, but we have this western habit of only seeing the feminine as fertile--unless we need a double-standard and hold up the man as the transmitter of life and the woman merely a convenient vessel who's to be tossed out if she doesn't serve in that function.

The Lord of the Seas fashioning all sorts of living creatures for the earth, the waters and the air, all that mortal vitality and turbulence and beauty, while Gaia was busy creating Titans, Monsters, and Giants of a particularly hideous, cruel, and violent character.

Changes your perspective a bit, doesn't it?

Swarttica wrote on 03/15/10 at 20:47:06:


Your sincerity is your best offering.

 A friend of mine in Nebraska wants to do a Poseidon of her own, but bemoaned that she was near neither an Ocean or an earthquake fault.
 I suggested she make offering to Poseidon by breaking a plate as an offering in grattitude for Peaceful Ground.
 The idea has rather blossomed in my head...wouldn't it be a suitable offering to make a special ritual plate, maybe out of unfired clay, and painted in appropriate designs, that could be broken up in offering to the Lord of the Tectonic Plates?
 It could even be the same plate we pass the crackers around on earlier!

i hope that we can clean the seas and oceans before Poseidon get really angry...others on this forum may disagree but even if the myths were only stories they still had things to teach us, like fables and other stories of that kind, that the gods are prone are not emotionless all powerful beings. cuz if they were would be no reason for them to have different spheres of influence they could manage everything. The Theoi are EXTREEMLY powerful and prone to the same emotions that prometheus imbued us with when he created us(i am speaking in metaphors)...so on that note i really hope that Poseidon is willing to forgive us because he could really mess our country up.

Ever since I can remember I had dreamt that I were drowning, every night I feared to close my eyes. When I were 15 I grew seriously ill and my parents took me to the coast to cheer me up and ever since that day I have never dreamt of death by water. My mother and I have now moved to the coast and as I write this I am looking across the North Sea and cannot help but feel free.

I like Poseidon as well.