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In Greek and Roman mythology, Nephele (/ ˈ n ɛ f ə l iː /; Ancient Greek: Νεφέλη, romanized: Nephélē, lit. 'cloud, mass of clouds'; [1] corresponding to Latin nebula) is a cloud nymph who figures prominently in the stories of Ixion and Phrixus and Helle. [2]
The Nue (鵺, 鵼, 恠鳥, or 奴延鳥) is a legendary yōkai or mononoke from Japanese mythology. Appearance ... often into the form of a black cloud that can fly ...
Thunderstorms are commonly depicted as the rage of the deity which is associated with it.. Polytheistic peoples from many cultures have postulated a thunder god, the personification or source of the forces of thunder and lightning; a lightning god does not have a typical depiction, and will vary based on the culture.
Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese) Psoglav - (Bosnia) humanoid monster with dog's head, horse's legs, one eye and iron teeth. Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines)
The Mahabharata describes him thus: Kabandha was "as big as a mountain, dark as a black cloud, with pointed hairs all over his body and looked fierce with a voice as loud as thunder. He had an eye on his stomach, round and yellow, emitting a glare like a fire-flame.
The monster has been described by Lost producer Damon Lindelof as "one of the biggest secrets" of the mythology. [4] The producers have often hinted that the black cloud of smoke is not a monster in the traditional sense, nor is it a cloud of nanobots (as some fans have speculated).
An 1831 color lithograph by Robert Seymour depicts cholera as a robed, skeletal creature emanating a deadly black cloud.. The miasma theory (also called the miasmic theory) is an abandoned medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera, chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, Ancient Greek for 'pollution'), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as ...
Within Greek mythology, Uranus was the primordial sky god, who was ultimately succeeded by Zeus, who ruled the celestial realm atop Mount Olympus. In contrast to the celestial Olympians was the chthonic deity Hades , who ruled the underworld, and Poseidon , who ruled the sea.