| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Pagoda" | Slavic | 'Giver of Favorable winds', a weather and Agriculture goddess. Cattle and sheep are sacrificed to her. Slavic |
| 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.... |
| Angel name "Gadiel" | Hebrew / Christian | A "most holy angel"; who lives in the 5th heaven and guards the gates of the South wind. The Greater Key of Solomon |
| God name "Egata" | Basque | A God who warns of approaching fire and windstorms. Basque |
| Demon name "Focalor" | Christian | A Great Duke of Hell who kills men, drowns them, and overthrows warships and has power over wind and sea and hoped to return to heaven after one thousand years, but he was deceived in his hope. Focalor is depicted as a man with the wings of a griffin. Christian demonology |
| Nymph name "Venilia" | Roman | A Roman divinity connected with the winds (venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Jutuma, and Canens. Aeneid x. Metamorphoses by Ovid xiv.) |
"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. |
"Hvergelmer" | Norse | A boiling cauldron in Niflheim, whence issues twelve poisonous springs, which generate ice, snow, wind, and Rain.. The Northern Tartaros. Norse |
| Spirit name "Tate" | Sioux | A creator spirit of the winds, he controls the changing of the seasons & guides the spirits of dead |
| God name "Fei Lien" | China | A demigod, one of the Counts of the winds. China |
| Demon name "Bechard aka Bechaud" | Hebrew | A demon having power over the winds and the tempests. He makes hail, thunder and Rain. Unk |
| Hero name "Shingebis" | Indian | A diver who dared the North wind to single combat. The Indian Boreas rated him for staying in his dominions after he had routed away the flowers, and driven off the sea-gulls and herons. Shingebis laughed at him, and the North wind went at night and tried to blow down his hut and put out his fire. As he could not do this, he defied the diver to come forth and wrestle with him. Shingebis obeyed the summons, and sent the blusterer howling to his home. American Indian |
"Rincewind the Wizzard" | Discworld | A failed student at the Unseen University for wizards in Ankh-Morpork. Discworld |
| Angel name "Ouestucati" | Nazorean | A female angel who brings the sea wind. Early Nazorean |
| Deities name "Obosom" | Akan | A generic name for the lessor gods, sometimes referred to as the deities. These spirits are embodied in the wind, rivers, oceans, streams, trees, mountains, rocks, animals, and other objects. Akan |
"Hraesvelger [Corpse-swallower]" | Norse | A giant in an eagle's plumage, who produces the wind. Norse |
"Bucca" | Cornwall | A goblin of the wind, supposed by the ancient inhabitants of cornwall to foretell shipwrecks. |
| God name "Hermes" | Greek | A god of athletes, sport, gambling, commerce, communications, eloquence, luck, Medicine, oratory, roads, & wind |
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