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The God Beneath the Sea
The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. It was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal (Garfield & Blishen) and commended for the companion Greenaway Medal (Keeping) by the British Library Association. Pantheon Books published a U.S. edition with illustrations by Zevi Blum in 1971.
The novel begins with newborn Hephaestus (the titular god beneath the sea) cast from
", meaning "grandson of the sea," is used as a kenning for fire. Even the Greek tradition contains possible allusions to the myth of a fire-god dwelling deep beneath the sea. The phrase ""νέποδες καλῆς Ἁλοσύδνης"," meaning "descendants of the beautiful seas," is used in "The Odyssey" 4.404 as an epithet for the seals of Proteus.
Mythology Binding of evil.
Jaan Puhvel notes similarities between the Norse myth in which the god Týr inserts his hand into the wolf