Triton (mythology) "The Little Mermaid", inspired by Triton, as an undersea king, the father of the title character. In "The Little Mermaid", Triton has seven daughters for the Seven Seas, the youngest named Ariel, of whom he is very overprotective. Though, this character (and all the other ones in the Disney movie) are actually based in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. 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
Tinjis Tinjis. Tinjis Tinjis (also called Tinga, and also spelled as Tingis) was in Berber and Greek mythology the wife of Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia, and some kind of a female deity. The historian and archaeologist Mustapha Ouachi noticed that the city Tangier is geographically related to its myth. The mother of Antaeus was the goddess of the Earth whereas the father of Antaeus was Poseidon who was the god of the sea, according to the Berber legend. In addition, Herodotus considered Poseidon as an ancient Libyan god that was adopted by the ancient Greeks. The Berbers believed, according