In other stories, he turned an entire Scherian ship to stone, and killed Locrian Ajax by splitting the rock he was standing on.
Antoninus Liberalis relates that the subjects of the Mariandynian king Hierax neglected to sacrifice to this god, who then turned Hierax into a vengeful bird of slaughter. Pausanias states that inside the Erechtheion, the altar used to sacrifice to Erechtheus was also sacred to this figure. An aspect of this god called "the Securer" or Asphalios was worshipped by the Spartans. In Thessaly, this deity was called Petraios because he ejaculated semen onto a rock that then turned into a sacred animal. In other stories, he turned an entire Scherian ship to stone, and killed Locrian Ajax by splitting the rock he was standing on. A man who promised to sacrifice to this god the first living thing he saw upon returning home from the Trojan War was a Cretan king named Idomeneus. Before the battle of Issus, legend has it that Alexander the Great sacrificed to this god by drowning a chariot. For 10 points, name this Greek god who could be appeased by sacrificing a horse.
Antoninus Liberalis relates that the subjects of the Mariandynian king Hierax neglected to sacrifice to this god, who then turned Hierax into a vengeful bird of slaughter.
Poseidon