Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5899967-20150208192922/@comment-26093638-20150212132251

Eskaver wrote: 8Rob wrote: How do we know OUAT's Poseidon is a god?

Maybe he is just the king of the merpeople, who banished her daughter for being a witch.

I thought the whole "Ursula is a goddess" thing from 3x06 was just a misunderstanding/myth

Even Rumple called her "the sea witch" in 4x11, no "the sea gooddes". Being a goddess is way more important that being a witch. If she is actually a goddess, everyone would call her that way.

Anyway, if she is a goddess, why would she care about heroes getting the happy endings......... she is immortal.... that would be just too irrelevant for her Well, just because she's a god(dess) doesn't mean she can change fate. In Achilles and other Greek literature, the gods had great powers but would not and could not override fate. Even Zeus did not, and he saw many of his children fall in battle.

Well I think that Ursula is not a sea goddess but a witch, since rumple called them his students, that makes me think maybe they were involved with some sort of Rumple style training, like Regina. That leads me to believe that maybe Ursula had to be taught how to use her magic, and she was not born with it as a goddess.