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Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned her into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis. [ 203 ] A mortal woman named Cleito once lived on an isolated island; Poseidon fell in love with the human mortal and created a dwelling sanctuary at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water ...
Her mother Cassiopeia foolishly boasts that she is more beautiful than the Nereids, [7] a display of hubris by a human that is unacceptable to the gods. To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon floods the kingdom's coast and sends a sea monster named Cetus to ravage its inhabitants.
Poseidon sent many creatures to find her. A dolphin came across Amphitrite and convinced her to marry Poseidon. As a reward for the dolphin's help, Poseidon created the Delphinus constellation. [8] Eustathius said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids, [9] and carried her off. [10]
Poseidon's punishment: Cassiopeia as a constellation sitting in the heavens tied to a chair. Hyginus, Poeticon Astronomicon. "U.S. Naval Observatory Library" Cassiopeia (/ ˌ k æ s i. oʊ ˈ p iː. ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κασσιόπεια Kassiópeia, Modern Greek: Κασσιόπη Kassiópē) or Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια Kassiépeia), a figure in Greek mythology, was Queen of ...
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium,” Episode 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” This story also contains a discussion of sexual assault.
Halia was a daughter of Thalassa (the personification of the sea), and sister to the Telchines; it is not clear who her father was, if she had one at all. [3]The sea-god Poseidon fell in love with Halia, and fathered six sons and one daughter, Rhodos, on her, [4] who later became the wife of the sun-god Helios and the one after whom the island of Rhodes was named.
When her father discovered that, he pushed her off a cliff into the sea. Poseidon then transformed her into an island bearing her name, one of the Echinades islets. Pirene: Pirene fountain: None Pirene was a mortal woman. When her son by Poseidon Cenchrias was killed by Artemis, she was reduced to nothing but tears.
JoJo Siwa and Jessalynn Siwa. Steve Granitz/FilmMagic JoJo Siwa’s mom, Jessalynn Siwa, thanked the former Dance Moms star for not leaving their family “high and dry” when she turned 18.