Poseidon is the great God of the seas and troublemaker of the land in Greek mythology, he was the older brother of Zeus who were the sons of Cronos and Rhea. The Etruscan name Nethuns (sea god) was admitted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology. Belonging to the two gods of the sea similar to Poseidon. There are samples where it indicated that Poseidon was worshiped in Pylos and Thebes in Mycenaean Greece at the end of the Bronze Age, then he was incorporated into the Olympian pantheon as the brother of Hades and Zeus.
The god of the sea was raised by the Talquines and by Cefira who was the daughter of the ocean. When Poseidon reached the appropriate age, he fell in love with Halia, sister of the Telquilinos, with whom he had 7 children, 6 boys and a girl, whom he named Rodó.
Poseidon was a very important god of many populations, in Athens he was the second most powerful, meanwhile in many cities of magnificent Greece he was head of the gods of the polis.
Poseidon is considered the lord of a fantastic island, Atlantis, he was the guardian of the sailors, during naval battles he was the one who determined the winning human group.
Poseidon in addition to having control of the seas, also had the supremacy to unleash storms, drive the rocks on the beaches crazy just by touching them with his trident, and could make springs appear. From the time of the Iliad, Poseidon had consigned this power, as well as Hades queen of the underworld and Zeus both on earth and in heaven.
To the god of the sea Poseidon a hymn of very few lines was written in his honor so that in this way it would be invoked, also called Homeric Hymns, which is also addressed to the god both the one who displaces the earth and the wasteland. sea, which is the god of the depths and king of Helicon and the great Aegas. Poseidon determines his dual status as Olympian and god who was a horse trainer and ship savior.
