Jul. 21st, 2021

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Prompt 6 for the Sunshine Challenge is someone about who little is known but their relationship to someone else: Amphitrite

Amphitrite is the goddess of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. She is the female personification of the ocean: the mother of fish, seals and dolphins. Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos. Refusing his offer of marriage, she fled to Atlas. The dolphin-god Delphin eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king. She also bred sea monsters, and her great waves crashed against the rocks, putting sailors at risk.


Having been recommended some resources in the last post, I went and took a look around to see if there was anything additional that could be gleaned, but there doesn't appear to be much about the wife of Poseidon other than her heritage and the story told of how Delphin ended up as a constellation for his service to Poseidon in convincing Amphitrite to marry him and taking charge of the wedding preparations.

Mythology, technology, fandom. Not necessarily in that order. )

And, y'know, I wish the most consequential decision that we were making these days was how much good-natured shit we're willing to take for our fandoms from people who like us and would apologize and stop if we said it hurt us.

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