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5 days ago · In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus ( Ancient Greek: Ζέφυρος, romanized : Zéphuros, lit. 'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi.
4 days ago · Among spirits of nature worshipped by the Shang, the wind was often mentioned. Winds were associated with the phoenix, and controlled by four wind gods of the cardinal directions (fāng 方) corresponding to four types of wind.
4 days ago · The god of wind then challenges King Arjuna to name a Kshatriya superior to Kasyapa, leaving him silent. The story then shifts focus to Utathya, a Brahmana born in the race of Angiras, who married the beautiful maiden Bhadra. Varuna, desiring Bhadra, abducts her to his palace adorned with lakes and Apsaras.
2 days ago · Zeus ( / zjuːs /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first syllable of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.
5 days ago · Under the guise of wind, he was called Quetzalcoatl-Ehécatl and was considered a great cultural hero. This image from the sixteenth century Codex Borbonicus (pic 8, right) shows his conical hat made from the fur of an Ocelot.
3 days ago · Most people think of the Aztecs as the people who created the magnificent civilization in Mexico that was brought down by the Spaniards and their Native American allies in the early 1500s. Most assume that the Aztecs as a people ceased to exist following the conquest. But this is not the case.
2 days ago · The serpent leaving the crown of the head could well be the tonalli, characterised by some as ‘shadow’, the one with the wind god’s head and arm springing from the heart the teyolia or ‘spirit’, and the third from the stomach the ihiyotl or ‘night wind’.
