To impress Demeter since Demeter asked him to create the most beautiful animal, so that she would start liking him. But after a lot of mistakes(zebra, giraffe, camel) Poseidon finally made the horse but he no longer liked Demeter anymore.
Yes. Poseidon presented Demeter with several horses to impress her.
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Demeter spurned Poseidon's advances and turned herself into a mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses; Poseidon saw through the deception and became a stallion. Their child was a horse, Arion, which was capable of human speech.
He wanted to please Demeter. So she said the only way to please her is if he were to make her a beautiful animal. So he created the horse and gave it to her.
Horses to pull Athena's chariot
It is an alternative story of the gifts to Athens, involving Poseidon's gift of a horse rather than a spring of salt water.
In Greek Mythology, Zeus was holding a contest to decide which god, Athena or Poseidon, would gain the love from the people of the Acropolis. Whichever created the most useful tool would win. Poseidon created the horse, but Athena won with the olive tree.
In Greek mythology, Poseidon created horses by striking the ground with his trident, causing them to emerge from the earth fully formed.
all forms of equui.
Yes, in Greek mythology, Demeter and Poseidon are siblings. They are the children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Demeter is the goddess of agriculture and harvest, while Poseidon is the god of the sea and earthquakes.
Demeter and Hestia were her sisters. She also had three brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.
Once Posideon made a god very very verryyy angry. He was dissapointed in him, and the only way Posideon could impress him again was to make a creature like no other! Therefore here came the horse. The god was so pleased, and now that... is Posideon's horse tale.