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now playing… to love a boy by maya hawke

“Goddess of the Sea, please be with me, so if I ever must flee, your waves will hold me.

Fair beauty of the oceans, I will tell you my emotions,and in loyal devotion, I’ll be set in motion.

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

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 (Αμφιτριτη meaning ‘Encircling Third’) was the queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon (god of the sea), and eldest of the fifty Nereids (sea nymphs) in Greek mythology. When Poseidon first sought Amphitrite’s hand in marriage, she fled his advances, and hid herself away near Atlas in the ocean stream at the far ends of the earth. Delphin (god of the dolphins) eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king which resulted in the birth of their son Tritôn. Sadly not much else is known about Amphitrite but she does show up in various works of art from the time. In them she always wears the robes of a queen, and carries a three-pointed sceptre called a Trident.

Deep beneath the waves, Amphitrite holds the denizens of the sea in her loving embrace.

greek couples - amphitrite, goddess of the sea and poseidon, god of the sea