poseidon · Chapter 3 of 4
Poseidon Hippios
Of horses · An Arcadian tradition · A wave with a white crest
Look at a breaking wave long enough and you see what they saw.
He is worshipped as Poseidon Hippios — of horses — across the Greek world, and the myths keep making him one. Pausanias records an Arcadian tradition in which Demeter, fleeing him, takes the form of a mare, and the offspring is the immortal horse Areion. Pegasus springs from Medusa's blood after Perseus kills her, and Medusa's children are his. The association is not decorative. A breaking wave with a white crest is a running horse to anyone who has watched the sea, and a god who shakes the ground and drives the surf is already describing something that bolts.
- A mare in flight
- An immortal foal
- A cult epithet
Unlocks in-game at Mastery 3.
