Triton (mythology) Triton (mythology) Triton (; "Tritōn") is a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the sea. He is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively, and is herald for his father. He is usually represented as a merman which has the upper body of a human and the tail, soft dorsal fin, spiny dorsal fin, anal fin, pelvic fins and caudal fin of a fish, "sea-hued", according to Ovid "his shoulders barnacled with sea-shells". Like his father, Poseidon, he carried a trident. However, Triton's special attribute was a twisted conch shell, on which he blew
Poseidon (short story) a tour of the sea. The short story consists of two paragraphs. The narrative perspective is not established and shifts between the paragraphs. An anonymous narrator tells the story, while an impersonal perspective by someone superior adds ironic comments. The second paragraph is dominated by Poseidon's dissatisfaction, but again he is not the narrator. Poseidon (short story) "Poseidon" (German: "Poseidon") is a small piece of prose of Franz Kafka, written in 1920. The sea god Poseidon is presented here as a disgruntled manager of the waters, which he does not really know. In the fall of 1920, Kafka broke away