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a fork that quit eating and became a god's weapon instead
means A three-pronged spear, classically the weapon of sea gods like Poseidon and Neptune, and the shape of any fork with three points.
from Straight from Latin tridens, 'three-toothed' — tri- ('three') plus dens, dentis ('tooth'), the same dens that gives us dental and dentist. So a trident is literally a thing with three teeth, which makes the essence's fork joke quietly accurate: it's all in the name.
- poseidon's tool
- Greek sea god split rocks and summoned springs
- three teeth
- name means literally three-toothed in Latin
- roman arena
- retiarius gladiators fought with net and trident
- missile namesake
- US submarines launch Trident nuclear missiles
- hindu echo
- Shiva wields the trishula, his own three-pronged spear
poseidon's trident — greek god of the sea's three-pronged weapon, depicted in mythology and art for millennia
ukraine coat of arms — golden trident (tryzub) as national symbol since kyivan rus in 10th century
british nuclear deterrent — trident ii d5 missiles deployed on royal navy submarines since 1994
krishna's peacock feather — associated with hindu deity, though technically a feather; trident (trishul) is shiva's weapon in hindu tradition