Poseidon Hippios
deity water Arcadian single tradition · 2
Poseidon was worshipped as Poseidon Hippios (horse) in Arcadia, where he was the father of Despoina. In this region, Poseidon was closely related to the pair of Arcadian great goddesses identified as Demeter and Kore.
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When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 400
- Historical notes
- Worshipped in horse form (Hippios) in Arcadia; father of Despoina and associated with Demeter and Kore.
Relationships
- parent of
- Despoina
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Poseidon was the father of Despoina and he was worshipped as Poseidon Hippios (horse). In Arcadia Poseidon was closely related to the pair of Arcadian great goddesses identified as Demeter and Kore.”
#27999 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Rituals involving the sacrifice of horses in a similar manner to the sea-god Poseidon Hippios are also attested, and might have influenced the horse-sacrificing rituals to Helios. The Argives drowned horses in Poseidon's honour, in Illyria horses were offered to him every four years”
#41408 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001