Greek sea gods the Enuma Elish, and where the Spirit of God is said to have "hovered over the waters" in Genesis. Pontus is the primordial deity of the sea. Poseidon, as god of the sea, was an important Olympian power; he was the chief patron of Corinth, many cities of Magna Graecia, and also of Plato's legendary Atlantis. He controls the oceans and the seas, and he also created horses. As such, he was intimately connected with the pre-historic office of king - whose chief emblem of power and primary sacrificial animal was the horse. Thus, on the Mycenean Linear B tablets
The God Beneath the Sea the past?" He also avoided modern dress as "this would be old fashioned within another fifteen years", deciding in the end to dispense with "any form of recognizable costume" while avoiding "anything that is appertaining to our particular moment in time." He used "a figurative art. There's nothing else in it... except people, their emotions and their reactions to emotions." Keeping called his completed illustrations for "The God Beneath the Sea" "a set of drawings much to my disgust not all awfully good." He saw them as violent and cruel illustrations of violent and cruel people, and attempted to visually