| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Baa! Samin (lord of heaven)" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Head of the pantheon. Probably originated in Canaanite culture as a god of Rain and vegetation, but became extensively revered in places as far apart as Cyprus and Carthage. Epithets include bearer of thunder. Baal Samin is first mentioned in a fourteenth century BC treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma and Nigmadu II of Ugarit. He had a major sanctuary at Byblos, according to inscription, built by Yehemilk. Josephus confirms that his cult existed at the time of Solomon. At Karatepe his name appears at the head of a list of national deities and on Seleucid coinage he is depicted wearing a half-moon crown and carrying a radiate Sun disc. Other epithets include lord of eternity and he may also have been god of storms at sea, a patron deity of mariners. By Hellenic times he equated with ZEUS in the Greek pantheon and the Romans identified him as Caelus (sky). Also Baal-Samem.... |
| God name "Baal" | Phoenicia | He is the god of the thunderstorm, war, good harvests, fertility, nature, Winter Rain & of storms |
| God name "Baal" | Phoenicia | God of the thunderstorm, war, good harvests, fertility, nature, Winter Rain and of storms Phoenicia |
| God name "Baal/ Hadad" | Canaan | A storm god[originally meant lord] |
| Goddess name "Bardaichila" | India | Assamese storm Goddess. |
| Angel name "Blue Men of the Minch" | Islands | Blue Men of the Minch, fallen angels who dwell in the strait between Long Island and the Shiant Islands and responsible for sudden thunderstorms and shipwrecks. |
| 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.... |
| God name "Buadza" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | God of the wind. Also regarded as a storm god. Also Olila.... |
| God name "Bussumarus" | Celtic | God of storm and mist and fog and lightning and thunder. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Chalchiuhtlcue" | Aztec | A goddess Rain & storms, violence, vitality, lakes, whirlpools, rivers, water , love, beauty & youth Don't make this one mad whatever you do. |
| Goddess name "Coatrischie" | Cuba / Taino | Goddess of water, winds, and storms. Cuba / Taino |
| God name "Col" | Sudan | Rain and thunderstorms god Sudan |
| God name "Col (black one)" | Nuer / Sudan | Rain god. He brings Rain and thunderstorms. Souls of people killed by lightning have been described as colwic. Also Chol.... |
| God name "Col/ Chol" | Nuer / Sudan | A Rain & thunderstorms god |
| Goddess name "Deng" | Nuer / Dinka / Sudan | sky god. Considered to be a foreign deity in the Nuer pantheon and a bringer of disease. His daughter is the moon goddess. In Dinka religion he is a storm and fertility god bringing lightning and Rain.... |
"Dido" | Carthage | Dido was queen of Carthage, who fell in love with ?neas, driven by a storm to her spéñïśs. After abiding awhile at Carthage, he was compelled by Mercury to leave the hospitable queen. Dido, in grief, burnt herself to death on a funeral pile. |
| God name "Donar" | Germanic | storm god. The god of thunder whose symbol is either a hammer or an ax. The day name Donnerstag in modern German equates with Thursday, a corruption of Thor's day.See also THOR.... |
| God name "Dongo" | Songhai / Niger valley, West Africa | storm god. The creator of thunderbolts, which are perceived as stone ax-heads. As the celestial smith he forges lightning and strikes a huge bell with his ax to generate thunder.... |
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