Poseidon - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 30.303 W 097° 27.642
14S E 639600 N 3930142
Poseidon is on the front of Poe Bouyz House, a seafood restaurant.
Waymark Code: WM13ZR5
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/20/2021
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This uniquely shaped building took a long time to build (the owner did the work himself). It has a fascinating design, resembling the house of a very poor person, with a door that doesn't stand up right, crooked windows and stairs that you aren't sure are safe to walk on.
On each side of the front face (the side you see from the freeway) is a bust of Poseidon (Neptune). The faces are about 18 inches tall, 9 inches wide. Each has a small tube coming from it's mouth, presumably to emit water considering the other water features incorporated into the dining room.
An excerpt from wiki:
Poseidon was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. He had also the cult title "earth shaker". In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however it seems that he was originally a god of the waters. He is often regarded as the tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he created springs which are related with the word horse. His Roman equivalent is Neptune.
Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea following the defeat of his father Cronus, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons; Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three. In Homer's Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War and in the Odyssey, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to Ithaca, the Greek hero Odysseus provokes Poseidon's fury by blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, resulting in Poseidon punishing him with storms, the complete loss of his ship and companions, and a ten-year delay. Poseidon is also the subject of a Homeric hymn. In Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the legendary island of Atlantis was Poseidon's domain.
Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon, and he remained on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, Erechtheus. After the fight, Poseidon sent a monstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him
Time Period: Ancient
Approximate Date of Epic Period: 3000 BC - 1200 BC
Epic Type: Mythical
Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art
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