His presence is usually accompanied by turbulence and tempest, a raging sea. 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. The ocean in dreams and metaphor represent the unconscious, memories and emotions easily remembered, retrieved, and personal, which lie just below the surface.

Poseidon greek god