Poseidon MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Poseidon? Poseidon is an ESTJ personality type in MBTI, 8w7 - sx/so - 863 in Enneagram, RLOEN in Big 5, LSE in Socionics.
Biography
Poseidon (pronounced poh-side-uhn), god of the seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, and earthquakes, is one of the six children of Cronus and Rhea. Of all the Olympians, it can be said that Poseidon's the proudest, and also the most thwarted. One of Zeus's elder brothers, he vied for rulership of the pantheon but failed. Poseidon later tried to win the patronage of several mortal cities, and usually failed in that as well, as the immortals judged other deities more suited to the task (he formed a horse out of water in a contest for Athens, but Athena defeated him with a superior creation: an olive tree). Poseidon appears as a large male human with long, flowing black hair and beard. He wears a tunic and carries a trident. For a god who desires the praise of mortals, each of these rejections came as a serious blow to his pride. Perhaps that's why Poseidon has become so vindictive, and why he flies into rages so easily. Fact is, his temper's notorious among the Olympians. Like the sea, he can change from placid to furious in a matter of seconds, and woe to the person who tried to hold him back. Poseidon's passions are the ocean, it's strange currents, and all the creatures within it. Some say he willingly took the rulership of the sea because it, at least, accepted him, the creatures of the ocean saw in him one of their own. Poseidon constantly carries the trident made for him by the Cyclopes. It's said to cause earthquakes in the land and the sea, and any sailor who wants to avoid getting caught in the waves from a quake'd best make a suitable sacrifice to the jealous sea god. The Olympian has sired numerous children, though most of them were disappointments, turning to the ways of evil and cross-trading. Still, Poseidon is their father, and he does what he can to avenge wrongs done to them. Sadly for the sea king, Zeus (or one of the other Greek deities) protects who who slay Poseidon's children, as long as the killer is a hero or upholds the general law of the land. It's just another instance of Poseidon being thwarted by his fellow deities. Sailors and coastal dwellers must be sure not to anger this temperamental deity. Poseidon has been known to flatten coastal cities with tidal waves or earthquakes when they displeased him. The hero Odysseus was condemned to ten long years of wandering because he blinded one of Poseidon's children, the cyclops Polyphemus. Poseidon represents all the bounty and the danger of the sea, bringing forth life (he is said to have created both horses and cattle) and taking it away.
