The Triton - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 37.930 W 079° 25.446
17T E 627125 N 4832226
One of the 20 statues at the Garden of the Greek Gods on the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) grounds in Toronto.
Waymark Code: WM7ZAN
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 12/28/2009
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This Limestone statue is sculpted by Elford Bradley Cox in 1979
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Text from the plaque:
THE TRITON
He ruled the seas and by blowing on hisconch shell could either stir up the waves or calm a storm.
Triton
Triton is a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the sea. He is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Amphitrite, goddess of the sea, whose herald he is. He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish, "sea-hued", according to Ovid "his shoulders barnacled with sea-shells".
Triton's fountain, by Gianlorenzo Bernini, RomeLike his father, he carried a trident. However, Triton's special attribute was a twisted conch shell, on which he blew like a trumpet to calm or raise the waves. Its sound was so terrible, that when loudly blown, it put the giants to flight, who imagined it to be the roar of a mighty wild beast.
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Triton dwelt with his parents in a golden palace in the depths of the sea; Homer places his seat in the waters off Aegae. The story of the Argonauts places his home on the coast of Libya. When the Argo was driven ashore in the Gulf of Syrtes Minor, the crew carried the vessel to the "Tritonian Lake", Lake Tritonis, whence Triton, the local deity euhemeristically rationalized by Diodorus Siculus as "then ruler over Libya", welcomed them with a guest-gift of a clod of earth and guided them through the lake's marshy outlet back to the Mediterranean.
Triton was the father of Pallas and foster parent to the goddess Athena. Pallas was killed by Athena during a fight between the two goddesses. Triton is also sometimes cited as the father of Scylla by Lamia. Triton might be multiplied into a host of Tritones, daimones of the sea.
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