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'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos (the goddess of the dawn) and Astraeus , Zephyrus is the most gentle and favourable of the winds, associated with flowers, springtime and even procreation. [ 1 ]
Zephyrus on an antique fresco in Pompeii Zephyrus and Hyacinth; Attic red-figure cup from Tarquinia, c. 480 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Zephyr and Flora, c. 1720, by Antonio Corradini, Victoria and Albert Museum. Zephyrus (Gk. Ζέφυρος [Zéphyros]), [5] sometimes shortened in English to Zephyr, is the Greek god of the west wind. The ...
Pages in category "Metamorphoses into the opposite sex in Greek mythology" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Zephyr, the Alabama town setting of the novel Boy's Life; Zephyr, a prototype battery in the 2010 film Knight and Day; The Hoboken Zephyrs, a baseball team in The Twilight Zone episode "The Mighty Casey" Zephyr, a sailboat in the children's book The Wreck of the Zephyr; Zephyr, an obtainable bow in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
In European tradition, it has usually been considered the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, the god Zephyrus was the personification of the west wind and the bringer of light spring and early summer breezes; his Roman equivalent was Favonius (hence the adjective favonian, pertaining to the west wind).
Metamorphoses into the Opposite Gender Who? Into what? By whom? Notes Image Caenis ("new") Man Poseidon: The hero Caeneus was originally a Lapith woman named Caenis who either had sex with or was raped by the sea-god Poseidon, and subsequently asked him to change her into a formidable man. Poseidon fulfilled her wish, and Caenis adopted the ...
Polytheistic religions, however, almost always attribute gender to their gods, though a few notable divinities are associated with various forms of epicene characteristics—gods that manifest alternatingly as male and female, gods with one male and one female "face", and gods whose most distinctive characteristic is their unknown gender.
In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura (Ancient Greek: Αὔρα, romanized: Aúra, lit. 'breeze' pronounced, or Αὔρη pronounced) is a minor wind goddess, whose name means "breeze". [1] The plural form, Aurae (Ancient Greek: Αὔραι) is sometimes found to describe a group of breeze nymphs.