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Neptune is in the Roman Mythologie, the god of the Seas and of the Oceans, as well as watery reign, it is the equivalent of Poséidon at the Greek . Neptune, or Poséidon, wire of Saturn and Rhéa, was brother of Jupiter and Pluto. As soon as that it had been born, Rhéa hid it in a sheep-fold of Arcadie, and made then accept Saturn which it had put at the world a foal that it gave him to devour. In the division that the three brothers made universe, it had for its batch the sea, the islands and all the shores.

Characteristics

Related gods

Neptune is identified with the Greek god Poséidon and with the Etruscan god Nethuns.

Its attributes

  • the sea horse

  • the Trident

Its favorite animals

Capacities

  • It is the god of the Seas, the Sources, and the Rivers. It is him which makes return water in their bed and with its three-pronged fork, it gives the boats to flood. It restores the order after the storm.

  • It is also the protective god of the horses and the racecourses.

Functions

When Jupiter, his/her brother, that it was always useful very accurately, had overcome the Titans, its terrible candidates, Neptune held them locked up in the Hell, and prevented them from trying new companies. He maintains them behind the insuperable fence formed by his floods and his rocks.

He controls his empire with calm imperturbable. Sea-bed where its peaceful residence is, it has the feeling of all that occurs on the surface waves. That the impetuous winds inconsiderately spread the waves on the shores, that they cause unjust shipwrecks, Neptune appears and, with a noble serenity, makes return water in their bed, opens channels through the hollows, raises with its three-pronged fork the ships taken in the rocks or inserted in sands, restores in a word all the disorder of the storms.

Family ties

He is the son of Cronos and Rhéa, and the brother of Zeus and Hadès.

Direct

Neptune is the son of Saturn and Rhéa.

He is the brother of Zeus and Hadès

Women/children

Father of:

Stories

It had as a woman Amphitrite, girl of Dory and Nérée. This nymph initially refused to marry Neptune, and hid to be withdrawn from its continuations. But a dolphin, in charge of the interests of Neptune, found it with the foot of the Atlas mount, persuaded to him to reach at the request of the god, and, for his reward, was placed among the stars. It had of Neptune a son called Triton and several marine nymphs: it was also, says one, the mother of the Cyclops.

Bonds with the world

The noise of the sea, its mysterious depth, its power, the severity of Neptune which shakes the world, when with its three-pronged fork it raises its enormous rocks, rather inspire with humanity a feeling of fear than of sympathy and love. The god seemed to realize, all the times it that it éprit either of a divinity, or of a simple mortal.

He had recourse to the metamorphosis then; but generally, in its same transformations, it preserved its character of force and impetuosity.

Myths

It is represented changed into bull in his loves with a girl of Eole; in the shape of the Enipée river to return Iphiomédie mother of Iphialte and Otus; under that of a ram, to allure Bisaltis; under that of a horse to mislead Cérès; finally under that of a large bird in the intrigue of Jellyfish, and of a dolphin with Mélantho.

Its famous disagreement with Minerve about the possession of the Attic is a transparent allegory where the twelve large gods, taken for referees, indicate to Athens its destinies. This god still had a disagreement with Junon for Mycènes, and the Sun about Corinth.

The fable wants that Neptune, driven out sky with Apollon to have conspired against Jupiter, builds the walls of Troy, and that, frustrated for his wages, he was avenged for the perfidy of Laomédon by reversing the walls of this city.

Worship

Before it is, in Italy, one of the most honoured gods, he was a small divinity, almost unknown.

Neptune was one of the gods most honoured in Greece and Italy. It had a great number of temples there, especially in the vicinity of the sea: it had its festivals, its solemn plays. Those of the isthmus of Corinth and those of the Circus of Rome were especially devoted to him, under the name of Hippius. Independently of Neptunales, festivals which were celebrated in July, the Romans devoted to Neptune all February.

Close to the isthmus of Corinth, Neptune and Amphitrite had their statues not far one from the other, in the same temple: that of Neptune was of bronze and high of ten feet and half. In the island of Ténos, one of the cyclades, Amphitrite had a colossal, high statue of nine bent. The god of the sea took under his protection the horses and the navigators. In addition to the ordinary victims and the drinkings in its honor, the haruspices offered the gall of the victim particularly to him, by the reason which the bitterness was appropriate for sea waters.

artistic Representations

Neptune usually is represented naked, with a long beard, and the three-pronged fork with the hand, sometimes sat, sometimes upright on the floods of the sea, often on a tank trailed by two or four horses, sometimes ordinary, sometimes marine, having the lower part of the body finished in cut in front.

In episode 16 of Bioman , the monster sent by the new empire GEAR names “Neptunokans”.

See too

  • Roman Religion

  • the planet Neptune of the solar system

Simple: Neptune (mythology)

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