How a Sea God Hijacked My Novel

The Unexpected Origin of Poseidon’s Atlantis Adventure

At Modern Mystic Media, we explore the unseen threads that connect myth, memory, and meaning. Sometimes those threads appear as stories. Sometimes as symbols. And sometimes—as I’ve learned—they arrive as ancient gods who refuse to stay in the past. This is the story of how one question about Atlantis opened a doorway into a much older memory… and led me straight into the depths of Poseidon’s world.

Sometimes a story doesn’t knock politely.
Sometimes it kicks the door open, drags a trident across the floor, and announces, “We need to talk.”

That’s exactly what happened after Einstein’s Compass was released.

My Bublish editor, Kathy Meis, said something that lingered in my thoughts longer than she probably realized:
“Readers want to know more about Atlantis.”

At first, I nodded politely. Of course they do. Atlantis is irresistible—mysterious, ancient, shimmering just beneath the surface of history. But then I realized something unsettling.

I couldn’t give them more Atlantis…
until I understood it myself.

Atlantis Wasn’t Just a Place — It Was a Memory

In Einstein’s Compass, Albert Einstein is born carrying the soul of an Atlantean Priest Scientist named Arka. Throughout his lifetime, Albert experiences flashes—intuitions, dreams, moments of recognition—attempts by his soul to remember what he once knew, what he once did, and perhaps… what went terribly wrong.

But here’s the problem I ran into as an author:

If Albert was remembering Atlantis,
I had to know who created Atlantis.

And that’s when the trail led straight to the sea.

Enter Poseidon (Uninvited, Naturally)

Atlantis, according to ancient lore, wasn’t founded by humans at all. It was created by Poseidon, god of the sea.

Which raised a very inconvenient question:

What was Poseidon doing creating a highly advanced civilization instead of, say, throwing storms at sailors?

You can’t just plop a god into a story without understanding his emotional state. So I went back further—farther than Atlantis itself—to the War of the Titans.

The War That Changed Everything

Before Atlantis, before Olympus settled into its power structure, there was war.

Poseidon and his siblings—Zeus, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia—rose up against their father Chronos, the devourer of his own children, to wrest control of the world.

They won.

But victory didn’t bring harmony.

Zeus claimed the sky.
Hades took the underworld.
And Poseidon?

Poseidon got the sea.

To everyone else, that might sound like a fair division. To Poseidon, it felt like exile.

Restless. Powerful. Unhappy with how the world was now being run, Poseidon did what any immortal sea god with unresolved sibling rivalry would do:

He left.

A God in Search of Purpose

Poseidon abandoned Greece and wandered the oceans of the world—exploring, brooding, experimenting. And somewhere in those vast waters, an idea took hold:

What if he created something new?
Something untainted by Olympian politics.
Something that blended divine knowledge with human potential.

And thus… Atlantis was born.

The Birth of The Human Hybrid Experiment

Once I understood Poseidon’s dissatisfaction, his need to create, his longing to shape a better world, the story took on a life of its own.

Atlantis became more than a lost civilization.
It became an experiment.

A bold, dangerous fusion of gods, humans, science, and spirit.

And Arka—the Atlantean Priest Scientist whose soul would one day be reborn as Albert Einstein—stood at the center of it all.

That’s when I knew I wasn’t just writing a companion story.

I was writing the memory Albert was trying to reclaim.

And That’s How a Backstory Became a Book

What began as a simple question— “Can you tell readers more about Atlantis?”—turned into an entire novel.

Because once Poseidon entered the room,
he refused to leave quietly.

Poseidon’s Atlantis Adventure: The Human Hybrid Experiment isn’t just a prequel. It’s the hidden heartbeat beneath Einstein’s Compass—the ancient past echoing through modern genius, reminding us that sometimes our greatest ideas are not inventions at all…

They are remembrances.

May this story remind you that the questions that tug at your curiosity are rarely accidental. They are invitations—whispers from older wisdom asking to be remembered. If a sea god can wander the depths in search of purpose, so can we. May you trust the stories that rise to meet you, follow them bravely, and honor the ancient knowing stirring within your own soul.

— Grace Allison Blair

The award-winning "Poseidon's Atlantis Adventure - The Human Hybrid Experiment" is available at Amazon and all the on-line bookstores.