Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "ADAD (wind)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | weather god. His father is the supreme sky god ANU. He is described as a benevolent giver of life in the fields but is also a more violent storm god. His name in Akkadian cuneiform means wind. His animal is the bull. In human form he is depicted wearing horned headdress and tiered skirt or robe decorated with astral symbolism. He may carry a scimitar embellished with a single panther head and his symbol is the lightning fork often fixed upon a pair of pincers.... |
God name "Adad" | Mesopotamia / Babylonn | Son of Anu and the god of wind, storm, flood and Rain. Giver of life in the fields. Mesopotamia / Babylonn |
God name "Adro" | Lugbara / Lake Albert, East Africa | Tutelary god. The personification of gråśś fires and whirlwinds who, in antiquity, created mankind. Thought to live in the vicinity of rivers with many wives and children.... |
"Aeolos" | Greek | He was the custodian of the four winds |
God name "Aeolos" | Greek | God of storms and winds. One of the sons of POSEIDON, said to have presented the winds in a leather bag to the hero Odysseus, and to have given the sail to seafarers. According to legend his home was the Aeolian Island [Lipari Island]. In one legend he is married to EOS and is the father of six sons, the various directional winds. The hexagonal Temple of winds, on each side of which is depicted a flying figure of one of the winds, and which is dedicated to Aeolos, still stands at Athens.... |
God name "Aeolus" | Roman | God of storms and winds. Derived from the Greek storm god AEOLOS, he is the consort of AURORA and the father of six sons, BOREAS the north wind, CORUS the northwest wind, AQUILO the west wind, NOTUS the southwest wind, Eurus the east wind and ZEPHYRUS the south wind.... |
God name "Aheramenmthoou" | Egypt | God of thunder, night, storms, wind, landslides and tidal waves. Egypt |
God name "Ahmakiq" | Mayan | An Agriculture god who protected crops from the wind. Mayan |
"Aiolos/ Aelus" | Latin / Greek | The ruler of the winds |
God name "Ambisagrus aka Bussumarus" | Britain | Originally from Gaul, where his Celtic identity was lost during the Roman takeover where he took all the characteristics of the Roman God Jupiter. weather deity who controlled the Rain, wind, hail and fog. Britain |
God name "Amen aka Amoun" | Egypt | Amun, Amon, Ammon. "Hidden God"; "Great Father." Phallic deity sometimes pictured with the head of a ram and other times pictured as a man with a crown with two tall straight plumes. He rules over reproduction, fertility, generation, wind, air, prophecy, Agriculture. Egypt |
God name "Ami Neter" | Egypt | A singing god who rules over winds and song. Egypt |
God name "Amihan" | Philippines | God of the North wind. Philippines |
God name "Ammon/ Amen" | Egypt | The god of air, wind, Sun, reincarnation, war |
"Among the Yoruba" | Africa / Nigeria | Aja also refer to a "wild wind";. It's believed that if someone is carried away by aja, and then returns,he becomes a powerful "jujuman". The journey supposedly will have a duration of between seven days to three months, and the person so carried is thought to have gone to the land of the dead or heaven (0run). |
Angel name "Aniel" | Greek | An angelic guard who tries to stop the West wind escaping through the gates. |
God name "Anila" | Hindu / Puranic | One of the Vasus, gods of the elements of the cosmos. He is equated with the wind god Vayu, Anila being understood as the name normally used for Vayu when numbered among the Vasus. Hindu / Puranic |
Deities name "Anila (wind)" | Hindu / Puranic | Attendant god. One of a group of eight VASU deities answering to the god INDRA.... |