The Seba library treats Trident in 7 passages, across 6 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Beekes, Robert, Harrison, Jane Ellen).
The golden trident is, of course, an allusion to the Trinity, and the fact that it is 'golden' is an alchemical sous-entendu, just as the idea of God's transformation in this strange allegory of Dorn's is intimately bound up with the alchemical mysterium.
Jung reads Dorn's golden trident as a Trinitarian symbol whose golden quality encodes alchemical transformation, linking the three-pronged implement directly to the mysterium of divine self-change.
, Alchemical Studies, 1967thesis
TpLQlVa [f.] 'trident', weapon of Poseidon (epic poet. 11.+); in medicine, designation of a cautery (Paul. Aeg.). «IE? *trei-es 'three', PG?»
Beekes establishes the Greek τρίαινα as Poseidon's weapon formed from the numeral 'three' plus an instrument-name suffix, with secondary medical use as a cauterizing tool.
, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, 2010thesis
When we hear of the trident-mark, the salt sea-well and the olive tree, we think instinctively of the west pediment of the Parthenon, of the great strife between Athena and Poseidon for the land of Attica.
Harrison interprets the trident-mark at the Erechtheion as a sacral token commemorating Poseidon's defeat in the contest with Athena, embedding the symbol within cult, place, and divine sovereignty.
, Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, 1912thesis
trident, golden, 334
The index entry confirms that the golden trident is a discrete, named concept within Jung's Alchemical Studies, cross-referenced with Trinity and triadic symbolism throughout that volume.
, Alchemical Studies, 1967supporting
golden: Age, 167; apple of the Hesperides, 307; golden flower, see flower; germ, 240; man, 64; oil, 227; golden star, fig. A4; temple, fig. A1o; tincture, 208; tree, see tree; trident, 334
This index cluster positions the golden trident among a series of alchemical golden emblems, situating it within the broader symbolic vocabulary of gold as transformative and eternal substance in Jung's work.
, Collected Works Volume 3: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, 1907supporting
skull-bowl, in the last [one], a trident-staff; his body embraced by the Mother Ratna-Krotishaurima, her right [hand] clinging to his neck
The trident-staff appears here as an iconographic attribute of a Tantric deity in the Tibetan death-bardo, demonstrating the trident's cross-cultural function as a divine implement signifying chthonic and transformative power.
, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz Edition), 1927supporting
Poseidon is an ancient and important god. The Linear B tablets revealed him as the principal god of Pylos.
Burkert's account of Poseidon's deep antiquity and cultic centrality provides contextual grounding for the trident as the god's primary emblem, though the implement itself is not explicitly discussed here.
, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, 1977aside