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Triton (god)
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Merman and one of the Greek gods of the sea, and son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton in later periods was often depicted with a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet. He acted as messenger and also a trumpeter and bugler to his dad Poseidon and great uncle Oceanus, blowing the conch to calm or raise the waves. Triton could also blow it so loudly and cacophonously it put giants to flight, who imagined it the roar of a wild beast.
In Virgil's Aeneid, it is revealed that foolish mortal Misenus challenged the gods to a conch shell blowing contest, for which Triton promptly drowned him.
