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Girra, god of fire in Akkadian and Babylonian records; Gibil, skilled god of fire and smithing in Sumerian records; Ishum, god of fire who was the brother of the sun god Shamash, and an attendant of Erra; Nusku, god of heavenly and earthly fire and light, and patron of the arts; Shamash, ancient Mesopotamian Sun god
Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". His name gives rise to the adjective "boreal". Khione (from χιών – chiōn, "snow") is the daughter of Boreas and Greek goddess of snow
God of mortality and father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, and Atlas. Mνημοσύνη (Mnēmosýnē) Mnemosyne: Goddess of memory and remembrance, and mother of the Nine Muses. Ὠκεανός (Ōceanós) Oceanus: God of the all-encircling river Oceans around the Earth, the fount of all the Earth's fresh-water. Φοίβη (Phoíbē) Phoebe
Hephaestus was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) and Vulcanus of the Lipari islands. The first-century sage, Apollonius of Tyana , is said to have observed, "there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, and yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to ...
In Greek mythology, Chione (/ k aɪ ˈ oʊ n iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Χιόνη Khione from χιών chiōn, "snow") [2] was the daughter of Boreas, the god of the north wind, and Orithyia a daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens. Chione was the sister of Cleopatra (wife of Phineus, king of Thrace) and the Argonauts, Calaïs and Zetes. [3]
Tower of the Winds in ancient Athens, part of the frieze depicting the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right) The Anemoi are minor gods and are subject to the god Aeolus. They were sometimes represented as gusts of wind, and at other times were personified as winged men.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/ p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") [1] is one of the Titans and a god of fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and ...
In the oldest images of phoenixes on record these nimbuses often have seven rays, like Helios (the Greek personification of the Sun). [16] Pliny the Elder [17] also describes the bird as having a crest of feathers on its head, [15] and Ezekiel the Dramatist compared it to a rooster. [18] The phoenix came to be associated with specific colors ...