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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, [3] 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 ...
Os Flagelados do Vento Leste (Portuguese meaning "The Victims Of The East Wind") is a novel published in 1960 by Cape Verdean author Manuel Lopes.Along with Claridade, Baltazar Lopes participated with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa with founded members of the review and the name was the movement in the main activists of the same.
Atlas and Heracles, metope from the temple of Zeus at Olympia. According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito. [21] The works of Eusebius [22] and Diodorus [3] also give an Atlantean account of Atlas. In these accounts, Atlas' father was Uranus and his mother ...
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 ...
The Ṣabā (Arabic: الصبا, romanized: aṣ-Ṣabā [asˤˈsˤabaː]) is an east wind that blows in the west of the Arabian peninsula.Because of its gentleness (riqqa) and pleasant breeze, it was especially popular among the Arabs, [1] and was called "Wind of the lovers" (rīḥ al-ʿuššāq). [2]
The Four Winds of Love is the overall title for a series of six novels written by Compton Mackenzie, The East Wind of Love (1937), The South Wind of Love (1938), The West Wind of Love (1940), West to North (1942), The North Wind of Love, Book 1 (1944) and The North Wind of Love, Book 2 (1945), which taken together constitute a major fictional chronicle of the first forty years of the twentieth ...
East Wind: West Wind is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1930, [1] her first. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her family undergo. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her family undergo.