Such irregular phenomena will have been shocking events much more awesome than thunder, lightning, and storms, etc.—and yet even these mild and common phenomena were linked to divinities in Indo-European thought, as with Hittite and Nordic weather gods, or the Greek gods Poseidon and Zeus. ...
But other myths claim that he was fathered by Aether (Upper Sky). Poseidon Origin: Greek Meaning: Olympian god of the sea Variations/Synonyms: Neptunus (Latin) or Neptune (Roman) Description: He was first known as the god of freshwater but later changed to the sea god. He uses a ...