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Some time later, he and Notus strand Odysseus on Thrinacia, the island of the sun-god Helios, for an entire month, following their departure from the island of Circe. [11] After Odysseus left Calypso, the sea-god Poseidon in anger let loose all four of them, Eurus included, to cause a storm and raise great waves in order to drown him. [12]
Of the four chief Anemoi, Boreas (Aquilo in Roman mythology) is the north wind and bringer of cold winter air, Zephyrus (Favonius in Latin) [5] is the west wind and bringer of light spring and early-summer breezes, and Notus (Auster in Latin) is the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn; Eurus, the southeast [6] (or ...
Aeolus, keeper of the winds; later writers made him a full-fledged god. Anemoi, (in Greek, Ἄνεμοι—"winds") were the Greek wind gods. Boreas (Βορέας), god of the north wind and of winter. Eurus (Εὖρος), god of the east or southeast wind. Notus (Νότος), god of the south wind. Zephyrus (Ζέφυρος), god of the west wind.
Notus, like most of the wind gods, the Anemoi was said to be the son of Eos, the goddess of the dawn, by her husband Astraeus, a minor god related to the stars. [3] Thus, he is brother to the five star-gods and the justice goddess Astraea, and half-brother to the mortals Memnon and Emathion, sons of his mother Eos by the Trojan prince Tithonus.
Euronotus (Ευρονότος), god of the southeast wind; Eurus (Εύρος), god of the unlucky east or southeast wind; Lips (Λίψ), god of the southwest wind; Notus (Νότος) god of the south wind; Skeiron (Σκείρων), god of the northwest wind; Zephyrus (Ζέφυρος), god of the west wind; Arke (Άρκη), messenger of the ...
The peoples of early Greece reportedly conceived of only two winds – the winds from the north, known as Boreas (Βορέας), and the winds from the south, known as Notus (Νότος). [18] But two more winds – Eurus ( Εὖρος ) from the east and Zephyrus ( Ζέφυρος ) from the west – were added soon enough.
The god of the sea, father of the fish and other sea creatures. Tartarus: Τάρταρος (Tártaros) The god of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld, the Tartarean pit (which is also referred to as Tartarus itself). Uranus: Οὐρανός (Ouranós) The god of the heavens (Father Sky); father of the Titans.
Zephyrus, like the rest of the wind gods Anemoi (Boreas, Eurus and Notus) was said to be the son of Eos, goddess of the dawn, by her husband and first cousin Astraeus, a minor god related to the stars. [10] The poet Ovid dubs the four of them 'the Astraean brothers' in reference to their paternity. [11]