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In Roman mythology the east wind was represented by Vulturnus. In Native American Iroquois culture, the east wind is said to be brought by O-yan-do-ne, the Moose spirit, [2] whose breath blows grey mist and sends down cold rains upon the earth. The Authorized King James Version of the English Old Testament makes some seventeen references to the ...
'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 wind). Eurus is featured rarely in ancient literature and art, appearing together with his ...
Three are male (the NE, NW, and SW winds) and one (The South wind or South-East wind) is female. [3] Franz Wiggermann also discusses an association between the winds (which he denotes as N, E, S, and W) and various constellations; Ursa Major as the North Wind, Pisces as the South Wind, Scorpio as the West wind, and the Pleiades as the East Wind ...
The Hindu wind god, Vayu. A wind god is a god who controls the wind(s). Air deities may also be considered here as wind is nothing more than moving air. Many polytheistic religions have one or more wind gods. They may also have a separate air god or a wind god may double as an air god. Many wind gods are also linked with one of the four seasons.
Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra); Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan); East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn.
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 ...
The East wind prevails over the West wind [1] (Chinese: 东风压倒西风; pinyin: dōngfēng yādǎo xīfēng), [2] alternatively translated as the east wind overwhelms the west wind, [3] the East wind is prevailing over the West wind, or socialism will prevail over capitalism, [4] is a slogan coined by Mao Zedong [5] in the early 1950s, when he referred to the east wind as the socialist ...
Kedem (East) is used frequently as the name of a scorching wind that blows from the east. [10] It is related to the modern word קדימה "kadima", meaning "forward". There are several passages referring to the scattering of people "to all the winds". [11]