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LIPS The God of the South-West Wind is represented holding the stern of a ship. NOTOS (Notus) The god of the South Wind pours water from a vase.

Muse of music in greek myth crossword full#

KAIKIAS (Caicias) The god of the North-East Wind is portrayed as a bearded man with a shield full of hail-stones.ĪPELIOTES The god of the East Wind appears as a clean-shaven man, holding a cloak full of fruit and grain.ĮUROS (Eurus) The god of the South-East Wind who is sculpted as a bearded man holding a heavy cloak. Their names and attributes are:-īOREAS The god of the North-Wind is depicted with shaggy hair and beard, with a billowing cloak and a conch shell in his hands. ZEPHYROS, BOREAS, NOTOS, EUROS, KAIKIAS, APELIOTES, SKIRON, LIPS (Tower of the Winds in Athens)Įight Wind-Gods are depicted on the Tower of the Winds in Athens dating from the C1st B.C. ZEPHYROS, BOREAS, NOTOS, EUROS (Homer Odyssey 5.291, Quintus Smyrnaeus 12.189, Valerius Flaccus 1.574, Nonnus Dionysiaca 6.18) ZEPHYROS, BOREAS (Homer Iliad 9.4 & 23.194) ZEPHYROS, BOREAS, NOTOS (Hesiod Theogony 378 & 869, Pindar Maiden Songs Frag 104) ASTRAIOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 14.544) OFFSPRING ASTRAIOS & EOS (Hesiod Theogony 378, Apollodorus 1.8, Hyginus Preface, Nonnus Dionysiaca 6.18 & 47.340) Mated with the Winds they produced many swift, immortal horses. The female counterparts of the Anemoi were the Aellai Harpyiai (Harpies). Later authors blurred the distinction between the two. The latter, spawned by the monster Typhoeus, were either housed in the caverns of Aiolos or guarded by the Hekatonkheires in the pits of Tartaros. The Winds were portrayed as either man-shaped, winged gods who lived together in a cavern on Mount Haimos (Haemus) in Thrake (Thrace), or as horse-shaped divinities stabled by Aiolos (Aeolus) Hippotades, 'the Reiner of Horses', on the island of Aiolia and set out to graze on the shores of the earth-encircling River Okeanos (Oceanus).Įarly poets, such as Homer and Hesiod, drew a clear distinction between the four, relatively benign, seasonal Winds (Anemoi) and the destructive Storm-Winds ( Anemoi Thuellai). Each of these was associated with a season-Boreas was the cold breath of winter, Zephyros the god of spring breezes, and Notos the god of summer rain-storms. THE ANEMOI were the gods of the four winds-namely Boreas the North-Wind, Zephryos (Zephyrus) the West, Notos (Notus) the South, and Euros (Eurus) the East. Wind, Winds ( anemos) Zephyrus the west-wind as spring, Greco-Roman mosaic from Antioch C2nd A.D., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts