#sea gods

[dopechaossea]

The Triumph of Amphitrite by Hugues Taraval, 1780.

[tinyscaredwitch]

Picking up trash at the beach as a devotional act to the sea gods ♡

[bloodlooser]

Poseidon can I have a big dad hug?

Amphitrite: wait, isn't it more like a mother hug?..

Poseidon: ...

Amphitrite: you're holding them like a baby, in a mother way!

Poseidon: I'm never giving in to you ever again...

[countlesssorrows]

sometimes being devoted to aphrodite means noticing doves singing out of your house, them being always present wherever you go. sometimes it means bathing in the sea, thinking about how she was born. sometimes it means picking seashells to offer to her, thinking “she will love these”. sometimes it is just thinking about her and worshipping her silently. i love her soso much, because with her everything is so peaceful.

[yourgodlyparent]

Sea Gods 🌊

(AKA Likely Godly Parents of Aspiring Waterbenders)

Amphitrite: Queen of the Sea

Amphitrite kids 🪸Shy 🪸Accomplished 🪸Hate conflict 🪸Prefer old movies and classic lit over anything contemporary

Delphin: God of Dolphins

Delphin kids 🐬Quick-witted 🐬Loyal friends 🐬Allergic to rules 🐬Don’t like spending time alone

Glaucus: God of Sailors and Fishermen

Glaucus kids 🎣Patient 🎣Good instincts 🎣Unlucky in love 🎣Answer calls and texts right away

Keto: Goddess of Sea Monsters

Keto kids 🦑Love to learn 🦑Always telling you about the latest conspiracy theory 🦑Enthusiastic 🦑Easily offended

Kymopoleia: Goddess of Violent Sea Storms

Kymopoleia kids 🌊Strong personalities 🌊Often misjudged 🌊Messy relationship histories 🌊Obscure music taste

Palaemon: God of Sharks, Harbors and Sailors

Palaemon kids 🦈Great storytellers 🦈Restless 🦈Excellent at keeping secrets 🦈Innate sense of direction

Phorcys: God of the Hidden Dangers of the Deep

Phorcys kids 🐟Tricksters 🐟Know how to work a crowd 🐟Original thinkers 🐟Hot-headed

Poseidon: God of the Sea, Storms, Earthquakes, and Horses

Poseidon kids 🔱Problems with authority 🔱Chill af 🔱Do NOT have their shit together 🔱Somehow everything works out for them

Triton: Messenger God of the Sea and God of the Navy

Triton kids 🐚Know all your business (and judge you) 🐚Team captain vibes 🐚Early risers 🐚Have a temper

[victusinveritas]

[crimson-and-clover-1717]

I see your sea god, and I raise you…

[kleioscanvas]

The Gods of the Sea, from the Sky-River Titan to the Well of Daliath. Commissioned by Martin Heldson.

[ryebread-x]

Ran and Aegir

Just a scary sea goddess with her sweetheart of a husband

[artsculturevienna]

Andrea MANTEGNA (1431-1506) “Kampf der Meergötter” - “Battle of the Sea Gods” Zweite Hälfte der 1480er-Jahre - Second half of the 1480s Kupferstich / Engraving Sammlung / Collection ALBERTINA Wien / Vienna Ausstellung / Exhibition Dürer, Munch, Miró. The Great Masters of Printmaking ALBERTINA Wien / Vienna - 2023

[dwollsadventures]

This has nothing to do with the holidays.

Two sketches stitched together: the first is based off of a Roman mosaic of a buncha sea creatures and deities. Phorkys is portrayed as an ichthyocentaur in shape, with crab forelimbs, and red spiky skin. It's weird, but a cool creature design. Meanwhile, Keto is completely humanoid and sitting on his tail. While drawing it, I had the idea that, of all the divine family tree, Pontus' branch is the most loving of each other. We all know about Zeus' infidelity, and Rhea helped her children kill her husband, but we never hear about the marital troubles of Phorkys and Keto, or Ekhidna and Typhoeus.

Proteus, meanwhile, is taken from both Ovid's Fasti and the Odyssey. In the latter he's a shepherd of seals, so he has a bit of seal-ish whiskers and a slightly pointed face. Ovid describes him as having azure hair, which is dripping. (ᵇˡᵘᵉ ʰᵃᶦʳ, ᶦ ᵇᵉᵗ ʰᵉ ʰᵃˢ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿˢ ᵗᵒᵒ...). Interestingly, the sea nymph that helps Menelaus capture Proteus says 'he is my father, or so they say'.

[dopechaossea]

Le Triomphe de Neptune et d'Amphitrite du peintre viennois Christian Griepenkerl, 1874

[tinyscaredwitch]

worshiping the Gods at the beach again today ♡

[small-chaos]

Hey guys! I was feeling creative, and I wrote a little something about a weird, spiritual feeling I had when I went on a night swim a couple of nights ago! I wouldn't exactly call it a poem, but it might be?

Anyway, have a read if you would like to!

Untitled, I guess

My friends and I went for a night swim at the ocean baths a couple of nights ago. 

This is usual for us. 

I end up being the only one out of the three of us who gets in the water. 

That’s fair. 

The cold chills their bones and the wind whips their hair, so there they stay at the pool's edge as the water swirls around their ankles. 

I move further, descending into the centre, finding myself at the very heart. 

The cold wraps around me like a blanket 

and it sinks into my bones,

I am warm.

I look to the ocean and I whisper a hello to the sea gods. 

I thank them for their presence, for their love and for their pain. 

They breathe life into this world.

They’ve looked after me since I was young. 

I love them. 

I tell them as much, with my head tilted up and my arms spread wide. 

The currents dance around me, fold me into their embrace, and I let them. 

The stars make themselves known, specks in the inky blackness behind.

I close my eyes. 

I breathe in

Somewhere, someone laughs. A dog barks. The seagulls sing. Children splash and play.  

Even in the dark of night, this place is 

Vibrant. 

Alive. 

I open my eyes. 

I breathe out. 

Two sets of blocky stairs descend into the water in front of me, and they are illuminated by the bewitching combination of moonlight, starlight, and the LED spotlights that shine down from the four corners of the pool. 

I am convinced that these stairs would take me somewhere incredible. They alight with hope, and their light mingles and dances with the darkness on the surface of the water.

They promise me safety, they promise me adventure.  

I do not heed their song. I do not follow their call.

Instead, I turn around

and slowly make my way back to my friends. 

They watch me approach with eager eyes, and I smile. 

[r0ttkins]

today is agressive day

[jranon]