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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 ...
Relief of Boreas in the Tower of the Winds, Athens. In some versions of Hyacinthus's story, Boreas supplants his brother Zephyrus as the wind-god that bore a one-sided love for the beautiful Spartan prince, who preferred Apollo over him. [10] In other accounts, Boreas was the father of Butes (by another woman) and the lover of the nymph Pitys ...
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.
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]
Eurus is featured rarely in ancient literature and art, appearing together with his three brothers as part of a whole if at all, and virtually has no individual mythology of his own. Often he is excluded from the group entirely, leaving Boreas, Zephyrus and Notus to represent the Anemoi. His Roman equivalent is the god Vulturnus.
In ancient Greek mythology Anemoi were the gods of wind, some of which were associated with seasons: Boreas (Septentrio in Latin) was the north wind and bringer of cold winter air; Zephyrus or Zephyr (Favonius in Latin) was the west wind and bringer of light spring and early summer breezes
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, walked along a riverbank on a lush coastal ...
Almost all of the Anemoi (Boreas, Eurus, Zephyrus, Notus, etc.), most prominently in their depiction on the Tower of the Winds. Angels in all Abrahamic religions, most prominently in artistic depictions. Anzû from Mesopotamian mythology, either a lesser divinity or a monster. Arke, Iris' sister who had wings [1] said to be iridescent.