Greetings, eggshellseas,
I'm very happy for your son, and you and your family, that
he has recieved this miraculous protection!
On the web, the website
www.Wikipedia.org has about a dozen ways the trident has been used, in classical myths all the way to modern popular folk tales.
Perhaps if your son would read those possibilities, one might have more energy, to show it as more important than the others to him.
He should be allowed to read it in a quiet time so he can try to feel which description is more important.
Best wishes for his full recovery!
Betson
Thanks for that,I'll tell him. Looking at that statue of shiva the dot on top looks a little more like it, but his prongs were much more straight...interesting.