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Triton (/ ˈ t r aɪ t ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Τρίτων, romanized: Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet. [citation needed]
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
The trident is the tool of Poseidon or Neptune used for the protection of the sea realms, the god of the sea in classical mythology. Other sea deities such as Amphitrite or Triton were also often depicted with a trident in classical art. Later, tridents were used in medieval heraldry, sometimes held by a merman or triton.
Triton of the Sea (海のトリトン, Umi no Toriton) is a 1969 Japanese manga series created by Osamu Tezuka for Kodansha.The manga was adapted by the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation into a 27-episode anime television series from April 1 to September 30, 1972, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino (in his directorial debut).
Triton is usually represented as a merman, with the upper body of a human and the tailed lower body of a fish. At some time during the Greek and Roman era, Triton(s) became a generic term for a merman (mermen) in art and literature. In English literature, Triton is portrayed as the messenger or herald for the god Poseidon.
This sculpture, along with two more groups (one of Heracles fighting the sea-god Triton, and one of lions devouring a bull), was part of the decoration of one of the two pediments of the Hekatompedon, most likely the western one, and was created around 570 BC, during the early Archaic period.
In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (/ æ m f ɪ ˈ t r aɪ t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιτρίτη, romanized: Amphitrítē) was the goddess of the sea, the queen of the sea, and her consort is Poseidon. She was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (or Oceanus and Tethys). [1]
In Greek mythology, Calliste or Callistis (Ancient Greek: Καλλίστη, romanized: Kallístē, lit. 'the most beautiful') is the daughter of the sea-god Triton and the Libya of Egypt, who was given to the Argonauts as a clod of earth that transformed into the island Calliste.