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Parjanya (Sanskrit: पर्जन्य, IAST: parjánya) according to the Vedas is a deity of rain, thunder, lightning, and the one who fertilizes the earth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is another epithet of Indra , the Vedic deity of the sky and heaven.
Storm gods are most often conceived of as wielding thunder and/or lightning (some lightning gods' names actually mean "thunder", [1] [2] [3] but since one cannot have thunder without lightning, they presumably wielded both). The ancients didn't seem to differentiate between the two, which is presumably why both the words "lightning bolt" and ...
Indra (/ ˈ ɪ n d r ə /; Sanskrit: इन्द्र) is the king of the devas [4] and Svarga in Hinduism.He is associated with the sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms, rains, river flows, and war.
Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightning produces rapid expansion of the air in the path of a lightning bolt . [ 4 ]
The clouds are children of Tāwhirimātea. In Māori mythology, Tāwhirimātea (or Tāwhiri) is the god of weather, including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms. He is a son of Papatūānuku (earth mother) and Ranginui . Tawhirimatea is the second oldest of 7 children, all of whom are boys.
The children were either slaves or the second-born children of noblepeople, or pīpiltin. [32] If the children did not cry, it meant a bad year for their whole system of living - agriculture. To signify when the rains were about to end, the Aztecs relied on the call from a bird known as the "cuitlacochin".
While the name of the god is not mentioned here explicitly, 20th century research has established beyond doubt that the god of thunder and lightning in Slavic mythology is Perun. [7] To this day, the word perun in a number of Slavic languages means "thunder," or "lightning bolt". Figurine of Perun from Veliky Novgorod, 12-century.
[125] [170] Thunder and lightning had both a destructive and regenerative connotation: a lightning bolt can cleave a stone or a tree, but is often accompanied with fructifying rain. This likely explains the strong association between the thunder-god and oaks in some traditions (oak being among the densest of trees is most prone to lightning ...