Dear ......TINA...WALKER,This Topic is about Iconography right ?
By your description the slideshow narrative resembles Indiana Jones, one and only featured lection.
the last episode with an older indiana was a shables he should have been made to look like his younger self !
Anyway,
to cut a long story short, The Trisent/ Trisula( Hindu.) WAS originally the" Tree of LIFE " or rather a FRANKINCENSE-Bush.
POSEIDON was indeed " Demonised" but not only in christian times
but even earlier, by GOD-king Salmanasser-3 in 855 bc because
one of his 6,' Winged' Sea Horses caused an earth-Quake that destroyed
an Assyrian Siege-Army before the Canaanite-Capital City of KAR-KAR
The iconography of "POSEIDON" was the" Syrian BAAL" watering a three-spronged sapling
As you might have guessed the Sappling became a trident and the Watervase a Battle-club
We call THAT a defamation of character a TABOO or
demonization Poseidon becam" BELIAL " As if you are still intrested:
The gradual change of Earth-GOD Poseidon into the Fierce Weather God HADDAD-Rimmon/
BELIAL-RESHEPHcan be followed iconographically from 855 bc until 500 ad on. POSEIDON became
Mary's " UNCLE " JOSEPHBo really has a way with words. I don't know if you've ever gotten around to seeing the Da Vinci Code yet, but the opening is all about symobols and their meaning.
Langdon (Tom Hanks) is running a slide show and shows a pitch fork and asks what it signifies. The French audience says "the devil, Satan!"
Hanks goes, "Poor, poor Poseidon." And pans lower to show the picture is one of Poseidon holding his trident, not the devil holding his pitchfork.
I think that Christianity has managed to taint a lot of the old pagan symbols. In another thread we talked about Pan, Satan himself is clearly just a variation of Pan.