The Greek Gods - Poseidon by Evslin, Evslin & Hoopes

This is a story about the mighty sea god Poseidon. In the myth, he, Zeus and Hades threw dice to decide who would get what. Zeus took the sky for himself. Poseidon smile, he knew that Poseidon had only chosen this because it was so far up. Poseidon chose the sea, he knew that there would be lots more adventures waiting down there. Hades usually had bad luck, so he got the underworld. The land was left to the humans. But Poseidon thought that he needed a queen, and chose Thetis, a beautiful Nereid. In a prophecy, Poseidon heard that the son Thetis would bear would be greater than his father, so Poseidon took another Nereid, this one by the name of Amphitrite. But like Zeus, Poseidon had lots of kids in other places, making Amphitrite really jealous. In a myth, Poseidon had taken a liking to Demeter, the goddess of agriculture. He tried to impress her, but she didn't let herself be impressed easily! She said "You have made many sea animals, now make me a land one, but it has to be so beautiful that I have never seen aything like it." So Poseidon created the horse, and when Demeter saw it, she gasped in astonishment; it was true, she had never seen anything like it. But Poseidon got so carried away by the beautifulness of his creation that he left Demeter and set about creating a huge herd of the horses. He later created some green ones for his undersea stables, but Demeter kept the original ones, and this is how all horses were created.