Anthropomorphism in motion.
DIES VENERIS PRID. NON. MART. MMDCCLII A.U.C. | XI
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Consider the catalyst of this story, Poseidon, who is nearly always referred to as ‘black-maned’¹ or The Dark-Haired One.
It is easy to visualise seaweed as an anthropomorphic representation of this god, wherein it appears black from the surface of deep bodies of water, & flows in currents like locks of hair.
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¹ Homeric Hymns, trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2004), 22: 6.
Images manipulated in GIMP.
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