In ancient Greece, the feast day in his honor was widely celebrated at the beginning of the winter. In other words, the god preceded his realm. In the heavily sea-dependent Mycenean culture, no connection between Poseidon and the sea has yet surfaced among the Olympians, it was determined by lot that he should rule over the sea.
Poseidon is already identified as "Earth-Shaker" in Mycenaean Knossos, a powerful attribution in a society where earthquakes were credited with the collapse of the Minoan palace-culture. Further, Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers singing to a paean to Poseidon-a type of hymn normally reserved for Apollo. Indeed, Apollo and Poseidon worked closely in many realms: in colonization, for example, Apollo provided the authorization to go out and settle from Delphi, while Poseidon watched over the colonists on their way, and provided the lustral water for the foundation-sacrifice. It is also said that Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the Oracle at Delphi before the Olympian Apollo became its patron. Poseidon was a major civic god of several Greek cities: in Athens, he was second only to Athena in importance while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia, he was the chief god of the polis.
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