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If surviving Linrearr B clay tablets can be trusted, the name po-se-da-wo-ne ("Poseidon") occurs with greater frequency than does di-u-ja ("Zeus"). A femininevariant, po-se-de-ia, is also found, indicating a lost consort goddess, in effect a precursorof Amphritrite. Poseidon carries frequently the title wa-na-ka ( wanax) in LinrearB inscriptions, as king of the underworld. The chthonic nature of Poseidon-Wanax is alsoindicated by his title E-ne-si-da-o-ne in Mycenean Knossos and Pylos.r a powerfulattribute (earthquakes had accompanied the collapse of the Minoan palace-culture). In thecave Who is the founder of the spic-macay organization of Amnisos (Crete) Enesidaon isrelated with the cult of Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. Tablets from Pylos recordsacrificial goods destined for "the Two Queens and Poseidon" ("to the Two Queens and theKing" :wa-na-ssoi, wa-na-ka-te). The "Two Queens" may be relatedwith Demeter and Persephone, or their precursors, goddesses who were not associated withPoseidon in later periods. The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised mythof the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia,noted by Pausanias (2nd century AD) as having fallen into desuetude; the violated Demeter

was Demeter Erinys.It is possible that Demeter appears as Da-ma-te in ,In the heavily sea-dependent

Mycenaean culture, no connection between What is the full form of HAL Poseidon andthe sea has yet surfaced, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons; Zeuswas given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and MountOlympus belonging to all three.

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did not share the fate of his other brother and sisters who were eaten by Cronus. He wassaved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended tohave given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour.

According to or nurse of Poseidon was who denied knowing where he was, whenCronus came searching..

According to a single reference in the Iliad, when the world was divided by lot in

three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Which bank entered the unsecured portfolio of credit segment by tying up with AmericanExpress Poseidon the sea. Inthe Odyssey (v.398), Poseidon has a home in Aegae. Athena became the patron goddess ofthe city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon. Yet Poseidon remained a numinous

presence on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, At the dissolution festival at theend of the year in the Athenian calendar, the Skira, the priests of Athena and the priest ofPoseidon would process under canopies to Eleusis .[25] They agreed that each would givethe Athenians one gift and the Athenians would choose whichever gift they preferred.Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up; the water was salty andnot very useful, whereas Athena offered them an olive tree.

The Athenians or their king, Cecrops, accepted the olive tree and along with it Athenaas their patron, for the olive tree

brought wood, oil and food. After the fight, infuriated at his loss, Poseid on sent amonstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him. Thedepression made by Poseidon's trident and fill FIPB cleared IKEA s pro ject, the largestFDI in single brand retail so far for how much amount with salt water was surrounded by

identified with Erechtheus," Walter Burkert noted; "causal sequence: in his anger at losing, Poseidon ledkilled Erectheus. "[27]

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a nymph and ancient sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus and Doris. Poseidon was the fatherof many heroes. He is thought to have fathered the famed Theseus. A mortal womannamed Tyro was married to Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) butloved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances. One day,Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus, and from their union were

born the heroe sPelias and Neleus, twin boys. Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, hisgranddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begettingthe Attic hero Hippothoon. Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned herinto the spring, Alope, near Eleusis.

Poseidon rescued Amymone from a lecherous satyr and then fathered achild, Nauplius, by her.

After having raped Caeneus, Poseidon fulfilled her request and changed her into amale warrior.

A mortal woman named Cleito once lived on an isolated island; Poseidon fell in love

with the human mortal and created a How many Indian Americans are among therecipients of the prestigious Marshall Scholarships dwelling sanctuary at the top of a hillnear the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to

protect her. She gave birth to five sets of twin boys(the firstborn who being named Atlas) became the first rulers of Atlantis.

Not all of Poseidon's children were human. In an archaic myth, Poseidon once

pursued Demeter. She spurned his advances, turning herself into a mare so that she couldhide in a herd of horses; he saw through the deception and becamea stallion and captured her. Their child was a horse ,Arion, which was capable of human

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of the Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are in _____ areas epithet Halosydne ("sea-nourished") with Thetis in some sense the sea-nymphs are doublets. Though Amphitritedoes not figure in Greek cultus, at an archaic stage she was of outstanding importance, forin th eHomeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, she appears at the birthing of Apollo among "allthe chiefest of the goddesses, Dionea nd Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaningAmphitrite." Theseus in the submarine halls of his father Poseidon saw the daughters of

Nereus dancing with liquid feet, and "august, ox-eyed Amphitrite", who wreathed him withher wedding wreath, according to a fragment of Bacchylides. Jane EllenHarrison recognized in the poetic

treatment an authentic echo of Amphitrite's early importance: "It would have beenmuch simpler for Poseidon to recognize his own son... the myth belongs to that earlystratum of mythology when Poseidon was not yet god of the sea, or, at least, no-wisesupreme there Amphitrite and the Nereids ruled there, with their servants the Tritons.Even so late as the Iliad Amphitrite is not yet 'Neptuni uxor'" [Neptune's wife]".

Amphitrite, "the third one wsea]", was so entirely confined in hsea and the creatures in it that she

associated with her husband, either for purposes of worship or in works of art, exceptwhen he was to be distinctly regarded as the god who controlled the sea. An exception may be the cul Burkert Who became the first Woman President of FICCI t image of Amphitritethat Pausanias saw in the temple of Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth (ii.1.7).

Pindar, in his sixth Olympian Ode, recognized Poseidon's role as "great god of the sea,husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the India has signed 11 pacts entailing investmentsworth 5.2 billion US dollars with golden spindle." For later poets, Amphitrite becamesimply a metaphor for the sea: Euripides, in Cyclops (702) and Ovid, Metamorphoses, (i.14).

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when Cronus cut off Uranus' s genitals and threw them into the sea, and she arose from thesea foam (aphros). According to Homer' s Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that their rivalry over her

would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, so Zeus married Pual tordaywho died recently was a her to Hephaestus, who, because of his ugliness and deformity,was not seen as a thr eat. Aphrodite had many lovers both gods, such as Ares, and men,such as Anchises. She played a role in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was

both Adonis' s lover and his surrogate mother. Many lesser beings were said to be childrenof Aphrodite.

Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus)after the two cult sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed to be her place of

birth. Myrtle, doves, sparrows, horses, and swans were sai d to b e sacred to her. Theancient Greeks identified her with the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor .[5]

Aphro dite ha d many other names, such as Acida by a different local cult of the goddess in Greece.names as referring to the si ngle goddess Aphrodite, dthese local cu lts believed the goddess demanded of tfor hers of the 4th century, however, drew a distin(Aprodite Urania) of transcendent principles, and a swas the goddess of the people (Aphrodite Pandemos).

Aphrodite, perhaps altered after aphrs ( archaic Cretan Aphordta and Cypriot Aphorodta,

borrowed from Cypriot Phoenician. Herodotus and Pausanias recorded that

Aphrodite's oldest non-Greek temple lay in the Syrian city o fAscalon where she wasknown as Ourania, an obvious reference to Astarte. This suggests that Aphrodite's cultlocated at Cythera -Cyprus came from the Phoenicians. The fact that one of Aphrodite'schief centers of worship remained on the southwestern Cypriot coast settled byPhoenicians, where the goddess had long been worshiped as Ashtart (trt), points to thetransmission of Aphrodite's original cult from Phoenicia to Cyprus then to mainlandGreece .[7] So far, however, attempts to derive the name from Aphrodite's Semitic

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y different from those of Eos (or Vedic Ushas) .[13] Finally, the medieval EtymologicumMagnum offers a highly contrived folk etymology, deriving Aphrodite from thecompound habrodaitos ( ), "she who lives delicately", from habrs + daita.The alteration from b to ph is explained as a "familiar" characteristic of Greek "obviousfrom the Macedonians" ,despite of course that the name cannot be of Macedonian origin.

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foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew." The girl, Aphrodite, floated ashorWho is t he author of the book Our India e on a scallop shell. This iconic representationof Aphrodite as a mature "Venus rising from was made famous in a much-admired painting

by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Elder. Of "Dios",the genitive form case of Zeus, and could be taken to mean simply "the goddess" in ageneric sense. Aphrodite might, then, be an equivalent of Rhea, the Earth Mother, whomHomer relocated to Olympus.

In Homer, Aphrodite ventures into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded

by Diomedesk and returns to her mother to sink down at her knee and be comforted.Aphrodite is consistently portrayed, in every image and story, as having had no

childhood, and instead being born as a nubile, infinitely desirable adult. She is oftendepicted nude. In many of the later myths, she is portrayed as vain, In financial terms CBSAphrodite's husband Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities,

stands for ill-tempered and easily offended. Although she is married she is one of the

few gods in the Greek Pantheon who is she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

but in the Odyssey she is portrayed as preferring Ares, the volatile god of war becauseshe is attracted to his violent nature. Aphrodite is one of a few characters in the Odysseywhose actions are a major contributing cause of the Trojan War: she offers Helen ofTroy to Paris, and as the goddess of desire, she is responsible for Paris becoming soinflamed with desire for Helen at first sight that he is moved to abduct her.

Olympus, deeming him too ugly and deformed to inhabit the home of the gods. Hisrevenge is to trap his mother in a magic throne. In return for her release, he demands to begiven Aphrodite's hand in marriage.
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lust for her own father. Cinyras is repulsed by this, but myrrha disguises herself as a prostitute, and secretly sleeps with her father at night.

Eventually, Myrrha becomes pregnant and is discovered by Cinyras. In a rage, hechases her out of the house with a knife. Myrrha flees from him, praying to the gods formercy as she runs. The gods hear he r plea, and change her into a myrrh tree so her fathercannot kill her. Eventually, Cinyras takes his own life in an attempt to restore the family'shonor.

Myrrha gives birth to a baby boy named Adonis. Aphrodite happand, seeing him, takes pity on the infant. She places Adonis in a box,to hades so Persephone can care for him. Adonis grows into a strikinman, and Aphrodite eventually returns for him. Persephone, however up, and wishes Adonis would stay with her in the underworld. The

such a quarrel, Zeus is forced to intyear with Aphrodite, a third of thwhomever he wishes. Adonis, of co
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Adonis begins his year on the earth with Aphrodite. One of his greatest passions ishunting, and although Aphrodite is not naturally a hunter, she takes up the sport just so she

can be with him. They spend every waking hour with one another, and Aphrodite isenraptured with him. However, her anxiety begins to grow over her neglected duties, andshe is forced to leave him for a short time. Before she leaves, she gives Adonis oneRecently footprints of dinosaurs were spotted in which Indian city warning: do not attackan animal, which shows no fear. Adonis agrees to her advice, but, secretly doubting herskills as a huntress, quickly forgets her warning.

Not long after Aphrodite leaves, Adonis comes across an enormous wild boar, muchlarger than any he has ever seen. It is suggested that the boar is the god Ares, one ofAphrodites lovers made jealous through her constant doting on Adonis. Although boarsare dangerous and will charge a hunter if provoked, Adonis disregards Aphrodites warning and pursues the giant creature. Soon, however, Adonis is the one being pursued;he is no match for the giant boar.

In the attack, Adonis is castrated by the boar, and dies from a loss of blood. Aphroditerushes back to his side, but she is too late to save him and can only mourn over his body.Wherever Adonis' blood falls, Aphrodite causes anemones to grow in his memory. Shevows that on the anniversary of his death, every year there will be a festival held in hishonor.

On his death, Adonis goes back to the underworld, and Persephone is delighted to seehim again. Eventually, Aphrodite realizes he is there, and rushes back to retrieve him.Again, she and Persephone bicker over who is allowed to keep Adonis until Zeusintervenes. This time, he says Adonis must spend six months with Aphrodite and sixmonths with Persephone, the way it should have been in the first place.
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The goddesses chose to place the matter before Zeus, who, not wanting to favor oneof the goddesses, put the choice into the hands of Paris. After bathing in the spring

of Mount Ida (where Troy was situated), the goddesses appeared before Paris. Having been given permission by Zeus to set any conditions he saw fit, Paris required the

goddesses to undress before him to be evaluated. (Alternatively, the goddessesthemse lves c hose to disrobe.) Still, Paris could not decide, as all three were ideally

beautiful, so the goddesses resorted to bribes.

Hera tried to bribe Paris with control over all Asia and Europe, while A thena offeredwisdom, fame, and glory in battle, and Aphrodite offered the most beautiful mortal

woman in the world as a wife, and he accordinglywho was, unfortunately for Paris, already married totwo goddesses were enraged by this, and throug

brou ght ab out the Trojan War.
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