When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Four Winds (Mesopotamian) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Winds_(Mesopotamian)

    The Four Winds are a group of mythical figures in Mesopotamian mythology whose names and functions correspond to four cardinal directions of wind. They were both cardinal concepts (used for mapping and understanding geographical features in relation to each other) as well as characters with personality, who could serve as antagonistic forces or helpful assistants in myths.

  3. Revelation 7 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_7

    The noncomformist biblical commentator Matthew Henry suggests that "the blowing of the four winds together means a dreadful and general destruction". [12] The Septuagint and Vulgate versions of Zechariah 6:5 refers to "the four winds of heaven", although the King James Version and many other translations refer to "the four spirits of the heavens".

  4. Classical compass winds - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_compass_winds

    In the Hebrew Bible, there is frequent reference to four cardinal directions. [5] The names of the directions seem to be associated with physical landmarks for the ancient Israelites living in the region of Judea, e.g. East is referred to as kedem, which may derive from "edom" ("red"), and may be a reference to the color of the rising dawn, or the red sandstone cliffs of the Land of Edom to ...

  5. List of wind deities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_deities

    Taku Skanskan, capricious master of the four winds. Tate, a wind god or spirit in Lakota mythology. Waziya, giant of the north winds who brings icy weather, famine, and diseases. Wiyohipeyata, god of the west winds who oversees endings and events of the night. Wiyohiyanpa, god of the east winds who oversees beginnings and events of the day.

  6. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the...

    Some equate the Four Horsemen with the angels of the four winds. [80] See Michael , Gabriel , Raphael , and Uriel , angels often associated with four cardinal directions). Some speculate that when the imagery of the Six Seals is compared to other eschatological descriptions throughout the Bible, the themes of the horsemen draw remarkable ...

  7. Daniel 7 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_7

    The four heads may reflect the four Persian kings of Daniel 11:2–7. The fourth beast: The Greeks and particularly the Seleucids of Syria. The "ten horns" that appear on the beast is a round number standing for the Seleucid kings between Seleucus I , the founder of the kingdom, and Antiochus Epiphanes , [ 20 ] comparable to the feet of iron ...

  8. Soul in the Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_in_the_Bible

    And the Lord God created man in two formations; and took dust from the place of the house of the sanctuary, and from the four winds of the world, and mixed from all the waters of the world, and created him red, black, and white; and breathed into his nostrils the inspiration of life, and there was in the body of Adam the inspiration of a ...

  9. Four kingdoms of Daniel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_kingdoms_of_Daniel

    For over two thousand years readers have speculated as to the meaning of the themes running through the Book of Daniel: [16] The four kingdoms: In Daniel 2 Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a giant statue of four metals identified as symbolising kingdoms, and in Daniel 7 Daniel sees a vision of four beasts from the sea, again identified as kingdoms. In ...