I was on the road in my car out of state on a US interstate highway and passed a large truck pulling a shipping container.
What caught my eye was the logo and the name on the container:
Chronos
The logo was a hippocampus.
Anyone else seen one?
I haven't found anything by Googling it, except a joint venture of Bekins (a home moving company in the US) and a West Coast (San Francisco) company, called Chronos, which is supposedly doing home moving in containers. Could be it, but there are no photos.
Just thought it was sort of cool . . .
Hippocampus is (today) the Greek word for seahorse. What does that have to do with Omega watches? I turned to Wikipedia.
In Greek art, Poseidon rides a chariot that was pulled by a hippocampus or by horses that could ride on the sea. Poseidon was the god of the sea and of horses.
The hippocamp or hippocampus (plural: hippocampi)(Greek: ἵπποκαμπος, from ἵππος, "horse" and κάμπος , "monster"[1]), often called a sea-horse[2] in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician[3] and Greek mythology, though the name by which we recognize it is purely Greek; it became part of Etruscan mythology. It has typically been depicted as a horse in its forepart with a coiling, scaly, fishlike hindquarter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoca...28mythology%29
It seems to me, Poseidon is the "Seamaster", thus Omega chose his mode of transportion as a symbol for the water resistant watch they introduced in 1948. I suppose, since a wristwatch is portable, the further connnection to Poseidon's transportation is not accidental.
Apollo, not Poseidon or the Roman Nepture, was responsible for driving the Sun across the sky. Other gods were concerned with timekeeping.
So back to the original question: since there is no connection that I can discern between a hippocampus and timekeeping ("Chronos" freight container), are the owners of this company Omega fans?
Otherwise, where did the logo come from?
