Talk:Poseidon

message: Can someone more technologically savvy than me add Codrus to the list of offspring?--Mr. 123453334 (talk) 00:10, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Codrus 

message: Please review or tag the article page for a cleanup to British English, since that seems to be the most used style on this inconsistent page. Also please archive the discussion, as the talk page takes a while to scroll on mobile and users are replying to decade-old comments. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 14:19, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page and TP cleanup and archive 

message: Please remove ‘still’ because it implies a continuous thread of worship into the past whereas in reality current worship is without exception revivalist in nature.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 05:28, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poseidon is 
still
 worshipped today 

message: What are the functions of the military weapons named after Poseidon?
Buzzancam1 (talk) 02:12, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Section  

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thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 21 May 2022 

message: he likes strawberries.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.123.82.180 (talk) 19:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  the sea 

message: What's posiedon Roman name 2C0F:ED28:104C:C010:E8CA:A84E:63A4:5069 (talk) 14:41, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Neptune C0137H (talk) 15:07, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  English 

message: Some suggest that he had sex with or raped Medusa. I believe this is a very noteworthy piece of information and should be in the article. 47.16.242.188 (talk) 19:25, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Try actually reading this article. This information is already included in the section "Consort, lovers, victims and children": 
**"Poseidon also raped Medusa on the floor of a temple to Athena. Medusa was then changed into a monster by Athena. When Medusa was later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck." Dimadick (talk) 10:31, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medusa 

message: All of the Citations for the main bulk of this section are from the 1920's or earlier. I'm pretty sure all the newer research is much, much less speculative (at least I can't find any newer academic sources that have any similar claims, and the only places where I can find these claims seem to be copied from some version of this page). The only newer citation (that actually concerns Poseidon), from 1966, proves my point, standing next to an older citation that makes far more sweeping claims about the same topic. (I'll note that that citation also does not seem to give the correct title of the book and should also be fixed). Therefore I would suggest either finding newer sources for this section or at least acknowledge that the contents of the section are based on old research and isn't echoed by the current research.
I should also add that the main source for this section isn't even concerned with Poseidon, but with Potnia. The discussion of Poseidon is only there to construct a (in my opinion very speculative) connection to equally old reconstructions of the Minoan religion, and the claim that Wanax is a chthonic entity is entirely based on the better established fact that Poseidon was worshiped as a chthonic god, which appears the other way around in the article.
I should also mention that the linked source does not have all the pages available for free, but the book is available to borrow on the Internet Archive (I don't know whether we can use those as sources, but if so that would be a better source to link to here than google books).
Side note - the claim that Wa-na-ka appears connected to Poseidon isn't sourced, and at least on the tablets I can't find them together (though it might appear as an inscription with depictions of him, but at least there should be a source for that - that's kinda what made me look into this section) QueenShelia (talk) 11:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, my mistake, I got the birth year of the author and the publication date confused (would also not make sense, Linear B wasn't deciphered in the 20s). Nevertheless, I would argue that changing the language here would be good, since the section does almost entirely rely on a single author. I would suggest making it more similar to how the Cretan Bull article does this (might make a more specific proposal later). QueenShelia (talk) 17:48, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations for Linear B (Mycenean Greek) inscriptions 

message: I would hazard movies about a capsized ocean liner, regardless of its name, aren't closely related enough to the Greek god to merit mention here. Spartan198 (talk) 15:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movies 

message: Under "Origins" section, first paragraph, sentence "Through Homer the Mycenean titles were also used..." change "Grreece" to "Greece" Wheel Dragon (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 January 2024 

message: It seems impossible that the word dawon:water is Doric. Nilsson asserts that the name "Poseidan" was adopted by the Dorians from the older population. The word derives probably from a IE ROOT.It would be useful to include the exact sentence from the book of Janda Jestmoon(talk) 11:28, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology