| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Anilas" | Hindu | The forty-nine deities connected with Anila, the wind. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Anitun Tabu" | Philippines | Goddess of wind and Rain. Philippines |
| God name "Aquib" | Roman | weather god. God of the west winds.... |
| God name "Aquilo" | Roman | Aka Boreas, a purple-winged god of the north wind, one of the four wind-gods. He was also the god of Winter, who swept down from the cold northern mountains of Thrake, chilling the air with his icy breath. Roman |
| Goddess name "Ashkit" | Egypt | Goddess of the winds. Egypt |
"Astraeus" | Greek | A Titan and son of Crius and Eurybia. By Eos he became the father of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, Eosphorus (the morning star), and all the stars of heaven. (Theogony 376) Ovid ( Metamorphoses xiv) calls the winds fratres Astraei, which does not mean that they were brothers of Astraeus, but brothers through Astraeus, their common father. |
"Bagba" | Africa | Fetish with the power of giving or withholding Rain is ascribed to him, and he is lord of the winds, including the Harmattan, the dry, hot wind which blows from the interior. Africa |
| Spirit name "Bagba" | West African | Animistic spirit. Fetish who allegedly controls the wind and Rain and whose shaman keeps the winds locked in a huge pot.... |
| Spirit name "Baiame" | Australia | The omniscient intangible great spirit is self-created, lives in the sky, is the creator of all things. He is important in initiation rites; he "receives the souls of the innocent." His voice is the thunder, his will is manifest through the wind. The Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, and Euahlayi, Australia |
| Demon name "Bechard aka Bechaud" | Hebrew | A demon having power over the winds and the tempests. He makes hail, thunder and Rain. Unk |
| Goddess name "Bhima (terrible)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) warrior god. A prince of the mythical Pandu family and one of the heroes of the Mahabharata epic, Bhima is usually depicted wielding a sword and a club. He is a son of the god of the winds VAYU. He is perceived as a god of immense strength and great cruelty, which separates him from the heroic figure of ARJUNA, his brother, with whom he is linked in the epic. Attribute: a club. Also Bhimasena. 2. Minor goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana). An attendant of BUDDAKEPALA.... |
"Boreas" | Greek | Bopeas, or Bopas), the North wind, was, according to Hesiod (Theogony 379), a son of Astraeus and Eos, and brother of Hesperus, Zephyrus, and Notus. He dwelt in a cave of mount Haemus in Thrace. Greek |
| God name "Boreas" | Greek / also Roman | God of the north wind. He controlled the storm which destroyed the Persian fleet sailing against Athens. Identified with Winter frosts. According to the Theogony (Hesiod), he is the son of EOS and Astraeos and is of Thracian origin: . . . when Thracian Boreas huddles the thick clouds.... |
| Spirit name "Breath-of-the-Wind" | Iroquoi | A spirit of the air and child of Ataensic. Iroquoi |
| God name "Buadza" | Ghana | God of the wind. Ghana |
| God name "Buadza" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | God of the wind. Also regarded as a storm god. Also Olila.... |
| God name "Buadza Gan" | Ghana | A god of the wind |
"Bucca" | Cornwall | A goblin of the wind, supposed by the ancient inhabitants of cornwall to foretell shipwrecks. |
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