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Old 01-19-2010, 12:17 AM   #6
Seashore
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Default Re: "Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon"

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Or a big pac man getting ready to munch down on those clouds!!


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Love the pic...your title "Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon" sounds like a book title, a profound esoteric meaning or a foreboding sign of some sort.
I used the title the Astronomy Picture of the Day website used for the photo...

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Where is the Temple of Poseidon and does it have a meaningful history?
From the blurb on the website:

"the Temple of Poseidon in Sounio, Greece..."

When you click on "Temple of Poseidon" it pulls up a Wikipedia article. Here is an excerpt:

"In a maritime country like Greece, the god of the sea was bound to occupy a high position in the divine hierarchy. In power, Poseidon was considered second only to Zeus (Jupiter), the supreme god himself. His implacable wrath, manifested in the form of storms, was greatly feared by all mariners. In an age without mechanical power, storms very frequently resulted in shipwrecks and drownings.

The temple at Sounion, therefore, was a venue where mariners, and also entire cities or states, could propitiate Poseidon, by making animal sacrifice, or leaving gifts.

The temple of Poseidon was constructed in approx. 440 B.C., over the ruins of a temple dating from the Archaic Period."
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