Tribe of Nêsos 5: Har-sef the Unlucky
Not far from the shelter and campsite of Khión's and Hédomai's family, Har-sef had set up a small camp. He was rather cold, all the time, and somewhat missed his village. Then he remembered that he and Usi had accidentally burned said village to the ground and, horrified, stopped missing it.
And there were good things, too. The sea had started calling to him.
"Yes. You'll do." It said, to be precise.
Har-sef was very unsure why the sea would say such a thing, but it was vaguely threatening. It also didn't stop, and he felt very aware of the sea all the time. Or maybe ... something in it?
He also felt comfortable inside the cool waters. He realized the danger of this the first time he almost froze to death and battled frostbite for days after this exercise. During his fevered dreams, Har-sef was rewarded with the triumphant certainty that the king of the ocean was also king of the underworld. People had worshipped him for generations. Har-sef saw them giving their dead to his stormy waters, saw them calling to him to spare them when he gave them earthquakes and storms. They had given him many names, but the one he would speak to his fellow tribesmen was Poseidaon.
For Poseidaon demanded worship.
Puppy break! Have some wolves in vegetation while I go on a nerdy tangent. Since I very much write historical fantasy, I'm often free to explore some things from history and myth that are just ... weird. For example, the origins of Poseidon suggest that historically, he used to be the "king of the gods"-type of character that Zeus eventually became. It appears that he's also one of the oldest Greek gods to exist. From my research (I am no historian, I just have ADHD and access to the internet) some scholars hypothesize that he's got his origin in a Indo-European god of rivers, oceans and the dead. The water-death-connection is a thing that pops up in a lot of Indo-European cultures and myths, so I'm willing to bet that there's some truth to that. Since we're still firmly before the Bronze Age, no Hades-cult has yet emerged, thus, I went with "Poseidon is also the god of the dead" at this point.
He's also not very nice. Come on. It's Poseidon.