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Pluto, with Cerberus at his side, is shown holding the bident in the mythological ceiling mural painted by Raphael's workshop for the Villa Farnesina (the Loggia di Psiche, 1517–18). In a scene depicting a council of the gods, the three brothers Jove, Pluto, and Neptune are grouped closely, with a Cupid standing before them. Neptune holds the ...
In My-Otome Zwei, Nina gains the Neptune Emerald GEM (海神の翠玉, Wadatsumi no Suigyoku), her element is a Bident(A trident with two prongs instead of the usual three; in mythology, the god Neptune carried a Trident, while his brother Pluto, god of the underworld carried a Bident) and she has a special attack known as the Dash Cold Water ...
In the Renaissance, the bident became a conventional attribute of Pluto. In an influential ceiling mural depicting the wedding of Cupid and Psyche, painted by Raphael's workshop for the Villa Farnesina in 1517, Pluto is shown holding the bident, with Cerberus at his side, while Neptune holds the trident. [138]
After Neptune was discovered, the Bureau des Longitudes proposed the name Neptune and the familiar trident for the planet's symbol, though at bottom may be either a cross or an orb . [10] Pluto , like Uranus, has multiple symbols in use.
According to the second and third Vatican Mythographer, Neptune's trident symbolizes the three properties of water: liquidity, fecundity and drinkability. [12]The trident of Neptune was viewed by Roman scholar Maurus Servius Honoratus as three-pronged because "the sea is said to be a third part of the world, or because there are three kinds of water: seas, streams and rivers".
The UGM-133A Trident II, or Trident D5 is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), built by Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, California, and deployed with the United States and Royal Navy. It was first deployed in March 1990, [ 6 ] and remains in service.
Neptune: Trident, weapon of sea-god Neptune [29] Pisces [30] Change of contemporary musical taste: Confusion, sensitivity [30] Pluto (a) Pluto's bident; (b) PL monogram for astronomer Percival Lowell who predicted a planet beyond Neptune [31] Scorpio: Demolition of old, bad political systems: Transformation, [32] fate, death
Several symbols were proposed for Neptune to accompany the suggested names for the planet. Claiming the right to name his discovery, Urbain Le Verrier originally proposed the name Neptune [33] and the symbol of a trident, [34] while falsely stating that this had been officially approved by the French Bureau des Longitudes. [33]