Greek sea gods conform to a single type: that of Homer's "halios geron" or Old Man of the Sea: Nereus, Proteus, Glaucus and Phorkys. These sea gods are not as powerful as Poseidon, the main god of the oceans and seas. Each one is a shape-shifter, a prophet, and the father of either radiantly beautiful nymphs or hideous monsters (or both, in the case of Phorkys). Nymphs and monsters blur, for Hesiod relates that Phorcys was wed to the "beautiful-cheeked" Ceto, whose name is merely the feminine of the monstrous Cetus, to whom Andromeda was due to be sacrificed. Each appearance in myth
The Garden of God The Garden of God The Garden of God is a romance novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, first published in 1923. It is the first sequel to his best-selling novel "The Blue Lagoon" (1908), and continued with "The Gates of Morning" (1925). "The Garden of God" was adapted into the film "Return to the Blue Lagoon". The sequel picks up precisely where the first book left off, with Arthur Lestrange in the ship "Raratonga" discovering his son Dicky and niece Emmeline with their own child, lying in their fishing boat which has drifted out to sea. While the last line