Triton

 **   Triton – The Water God Created by: Emily Lim  Quick Facts: **
 * Triton (TRI-ton) is the water god
 * Son of Poseidon (Po-SEI-don) & Amphitrite (Am-phi-TRI-te)
 * Travels by horses or sea monsters
 * Owns a Powerful conch shell (blows gently to calm sea & violently to stir up sea)
 * Has two daughters Athena and Pallas
 * **Triton's Fountain found in Piazza Barberini, Rome **



His Background: 

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Triton is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Since Poseidon is the god of the sea and Amphitrite is goddess of the sea, they all live in the deep sea in golden palace. An image of Triton would normally be characterized as a manly body with a tail of a fish. Also known as a ‘merman’. Sometimes he is even shown with the forefeet of a horse. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">

<span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold';"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">His Powers: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">Triton travels through the sea by riding horses and sea monsters. He is a very powerful God. He owns a twisted conch shell, which he blows fiercely to stir up the sea or lightly to calm the sea. Like his father, Triton is also usually seen with his [|trident,] <span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">a three pronged spear. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);"> <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">

<span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">His Family: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">Triton had two daughters, Pallas and Athena. Athena was just his foster daughter, her real father is Zeus, who still protected her. She is known for being the goddess of heroic actins. Athena killed Pallas during one of their fights. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147); text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">

<span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">Triton’s Fountain: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">Gian Lorenzo Bernini created this magnificent fountain called the //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);"> Triton Fountain. // <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">It is sited in Piazza Barberini, Rome close to the entrance of the Palazzao Barberini. Between 1642 and 1643, Bernini produced an over-lifesize model of Triton. The sculpture was made out of a sedimentary rock called <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC TT-Bold'; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147);">[|t]<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|ravertine] <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 0, 147); color: rgb(68, 172, 248);">. The figure is shown with Triton sitting on an open shell, raising his chin up, blowing into his conch shell. At the top of the shell, water shoots out in a very high arch. Below the open shell there are four dolphins that interlink down into the pool of water at the base of the statue. <span style="display: block; text-align: center; color: rgb(68, 172, 248); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> <span style="background-color: rgb(247, 29, 143); text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(247, 29, 143); text-align: center; display: block;">



<span style="background-color: rgb(247, 29, 143); text-align: center; display: block;">