#amphitriteedit

𝐋𝐀𝐄𝐍𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐘𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐃𝐎𝐍

I’ll dance with the water, while you sleep, underwater. and with your dolphin daughters, I pray for those still waters.”

amphitrite /Ἀμφιτρίτη/ • goddess and queen of the sea.

❝ (...) The earth has guilt, the earth has care, Unquiet are its graves; But peaceful sleep is ever there, Beneath the dark blue waves. ❞ ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ocean

queen of the sea.

“Amphitrite was the goddess-queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. She was the female personification of the sea–the loud-moaning mother of fish, seals and dolphins.”

Amphitrite was an important goddess. She witnessed the birth of the god Apollo along with other high ranking deities. Her legendary husband was the powerful Poseidon, the god of the sea, and brother of the chief of gods, Zeus. In later years, she had a lesser role in the myths and eventually her name simply represented the sea itself. (birthday gift for @jaimeslanniste​ ♥)

“Amphitrite was the goddess-queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. She was the female personification of the sea–the loud-moaning mother of fish, seals and dolphins. Amphitrite was depicted in Greek vase painting as a young woman, often raising her hand in a pinching gesture.”