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In Greek mythology and religion, Eurus (Ancient Greek: Εὖρος, romanized: Euros, lit. 'east wind') is the god and personification of the east wind, although sometimes he is also said to be southeast specifically. [1] He is one of the four principal wind gods, the Anemoi, alongside Boreas (north wind), Zephyrus (west wind) and Notus (south ...
In Greek mythology, Eurus, the east wind, was the only wind not associated with one of the three Greek seasons. Eurus is also the only one of these four Anemoi not mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony or in the Orphic Hymns. In Egyptian mythology, Henkhisesui is the god of the east wind. He was depicted as a man with the head of a Ram.
In the Latin poems, the name Eurus is generally used for the east or southeast wind, as in Greek. [12] Eurus is a wind of storm, described as a turbulent wind during storms and tossing ships on the sea. [13] [14] He is referred to as the "savior of Sparta" in a Homeric paean, or poem. [15] Eurus is also called the "hot wind" by Nonnus in ...
When the wind is blowing in the South It brings the food over the fish's mouth, When the wind is blowing in the West, That is when the fishing's best! In western European seas, this description of wind direction is an excellent illustration of how the weather events of an active low pressure area [12] present themselves. With the approach of a ...
Boreas, like the rest of the wind gods, was said to be the son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, by her husband Astraeus, a minor star-god. [4] He is thus brother to the rest of the Anemoi (the wind gods), the five star-gods and the justice goddess Astraea. Boreas was closely associated with horses, storms, and winter.
In Greek mythology, Astraeus (/ ə ˈ s t r iː ə s /) or Astraios (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖος, romanized: Astraîos, lit. 'starry' [1]) is an astrological god. Some also associate him with the winds, as he is the father of the four Anemoi (wind deities), by his wife, the dawn-goddess Eos.
Arawn, king of Annwn in some Welsh legends and associated with hunting, dogs and stags; Cernunnos, a horned god associated with fertility and hunting; Gwyn ap Nudd, another king of Annwn in Welsh Mythology, associated with the Wild Hunt
The Greek wind system was adopted by the Romans, partly under their Greek nomenclature, but increasingly also under new Latin names. Roman poet Virgil , in his Georgics (c. 29 BCE) refers to several of the winds by their old Greek names (e.g. Zephyrus, Eurus, Boreas), and introduces a few new Latin names – notably, "black Auster", "cold ...