Pegasus reacted badly and threw Bellerophon who fell to the earth and became crippled. Zeus sent a gadfly down to the two and had it sting Pegasus. These wins ended up going to Bellerophon’s head, who one day decided he would fly Pegasus up into the sky to the home of the gods. After the Chimaera was killed, Bellerophon and Pegasus continued to fight in other battles and win. Together, the two went on to attack and kill the Chimaera. The next morning he found the bridle beside him.īellerophon found Pegasus and easily bridled the horse. He made a sacrifice to Athena and then had a dream about her giving him a special bridle. The hero Bellerophon had heard about Pegasus and wanted the flying horse for himself. The second was Chrysaor, who fathered the three headed monster, Geryon. The first was Pegasus, the winged horse who became the companion of heroes. When she was beheaded by the hero Perseus, Poseidon’s sons emerged from the stump. Her sisters also became monsters and they became killers of men. The Gorgon Medusa was transformed into a monster after the was raped by Poseidon on the floor of a temple of Athena. Children of Medusa – Pegasus and Chrysaor Dionysus ended up challenging Triton to a fight which Triton ended up losing.Ģ. Triton was also known in another myth for bothering the women of Tanagra as they were bathing before worshipping the god Dionysus. It is said that one of the Argonauts dropped the earth in the sea which created the island, Thera. He told Jason and the Argonauts how to get back on track by finding the sea. Triton met the captain of the Argonauts, Jason, but Triton was disguised as a human named Euryphylus. When the Argonauts went in search of the Golden Fleece, a giant wave took their ship, the Argo, off course. It was also said that when the Olympian war began with the Titans, Triton was able to terrify the giants by using his conch shell. He was also known to carry a conch shell which he used to calm the waves for his father. Triton was a god of the sea and was known to have the tail of a fish and the torso of a man. Rhodos is also often a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, though sometimes Aphrodite or Halia are her mother. His full sister Benthesikyme personified waves, and also raised her own half-brother, Eumolpus, whose mother was Chione. He ruled the deep sea and lived in Poseidon’s golden palace. The first was Triton, a half-man half-fish who became the first merman. Poseidon had three children with his wife. Children of Amphitrite – Triton, Benthesikyme and Eumolpus
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