Wind - is an indispensable tool for humans.Now I use it to receive electricity, grow crops, etc.Therefore, in the legends and myths of different nations wind took its rightful place.So, many pagans one of the main characters in myths and legends, was the god of the wind.However, every people called and portrayed it differently.
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If you explore the mythology of all nationalities, you'll find more than a hundred different gods, who is the patron of the wind.Not last place in the pantheon of gods of virtually every nation takes the pagan god of wind - the master of one of the fundamental elements of the universe - the air.Names lords air element does not count, every people called it in different ways, thus endowing the same powers and abilities.Northwind, music, Zephyr, Aeolus, EVR, Amon Egyptian, Indian and Slavic Vayu Stribog - is an incomplete list of names of the god of the wind.
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Let's look at the most famous characters from pagan religions.
1. Ancient Iran.God of wind - Vayu.It's not even a god, and the twins.Only the first Vayu evil, he is trying to harm the souls of the deceased faithful.This corresponds to the subsistence of its evil north wind.A second kind of Vayu, it forwards them across the bridge to the valley Chinvat eternal rest.This god of the inhabitants of Ancient Iran was associated with the warm spring wind carrying of a life.This story is given in the sacred texts of Pahlavi.A hymn "Yasht» XV tells of Vayu - terrible deity who is the intermediary between heaven and earth.Among other things, the ancient Iranians believed him patron saint of soldiers, and all the military class.
2. Ancient India.God of wind - Vayu.Of course, the name of this deity like the nickname ancient Iranian Vayu, but they are very different from each other.Vayu - the god, having a pleasant appearance, featuring a thousand eyes, and the rapidity of thought.Mount from this deity - deer.But often Vayu is worn under the sky in a chariot sparkling with by Indra.God of wind is known for its generosity, benevolence, wealth.The sacrifice he brings animals white color.In gratitude Vayu often sends down the donor's son (and, in general, his house filled with children's laughter), and this is the biggest reward.It is also the god of the wind not to deprive property, horses, bulls, fame, shelter and protection from the enemies of those who worship him.
3. Ancient Egypt.God of wind - Shu.On the Egyptian deity figures it depicts a man leaning with one knee on the ground and stick to your hands firmament.Shu is also one of the judges in the afterlife.
4. Ancient China.God of wind - Fenbo.It has a certain appearance of the deity there.He portrayed the dog that has a human face, the comet, the Feylyanem - spotted like a leopard, deer with a bird's head and a snake's tail.
5. Ancient Japan.God of wind - Fujino.Depicted as a man carrying a bag behind, which are composed of all tornadoes, winds and breezes.According to ancient Japanese legend, at the dawn of the world Fujino issued a hurricane, so that he scattered the mist between the earth and the firmament firmament.
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unequal spirit soul, but close to it.Spirit - is a breath, the movement of air, which means wind.That is why the gods of the winds are much closer to man than any other natural.They're already inside, already formed the intention, behavior, perception of the world.
It is interesting to see the genealogy of the gods of the wind.Most often they are not written in the general hierarchical system and are newcomers.God of wind arrives with the wind and flies away just as suddenly.
can think about the images of the gods winds.Almost everywhere (except China) and they resemble winged angels.Or demons - the winged messenger of the gods of the ancient Greek philosophers were demons, regardless of the plus or minus sign in the ethical motivation.It is tempting to continue the line of the god of the wind - the angel - the soul, but since it can lead to unnecessary thoughts and discoveries, better just take it as a given similarity.
What is the name of the god of the wind, and when his name?Only at the beginning of the battle, or to sail ships.God of wind as the first patron of geopolitics.And this is also an occasion to reflect.
Deity wind in the ancient world order
As is known, the most logical, and we know the system of world order, where each god its place and its life history, from the ancient Greeks.Greek myths and legends such detail that they can not be compared even Chinese and Japanese divine hierarchical system, where each deity his rank and number of stars on the shoulder straps.For example, someone with a light hand of the goddess of the breeze began harpies.
In China and India in particular reform was not the realm of the gods, from the beginning of natural deity dangerous and hostile, in the affairs of the divine council are demons.Vedic Maruta (comparable to our Mara-Moran) - not a god, but the demon wind and weather.Try defined herein, the name of the god of the wind!
Wind on Olympus
God wind the Greeks are not alone.Olympic wind in charge of several deities.The most severe was
Boreas, the god of the north wind.He was the son of Dawn and the starry sky.It is interesting to conjecture about the relationship of the Greeks to the north dawn.By the way, they are very respected Hyperborea, far northern country where Russia is now located.From there, for example, in Greece, was Apollo.
And in many sources (not quite official, of course), it is assumed that many of the Greek gods - is the Slavic god at some time choose their place of residence in Greece and assimilated there.It is not known as anything but a Scythian Boreas exact roots.According to Greek legend, he lives in the Thrace and turns into a horse.His brother Zephyr - the god of the west wind.Known romance with harpy (again windy woman), gout, and from this marriage were born horses of Achilles.
God of the south wind - Notes.He brings fog and humidity.EVR - god unexpected south-east wind.East wind in the cosmogony of the Greeks there.He is not related to other gods, deprived of human appearance and destroying ships.I wonder how he rushed to the edge of the Greek?And the most famous - Aeolus.Just a demi-god of the wind.Son Ellina.A mysterious figure and seems from another fairy tale.Gave Odyssey fur, which were hidden in the winds, with instructions not to open.Odysseus did not listen.
Stribog and ...
In Slavic mythology, the winds are not personalized.Stribog name is derived from the word "Strega", meaning "paternal uncle", "senior."God did this through breathing kind.Stribog can cause and to tame the storm and transform into his assistant, the mythical bird of the stratum.God of wind in ancient Slavs - it's not so much the god of the air element, as the grandfather of all winds.If you dig into his genealogy, the Vedic and Indo-European roots of the name and characteristics of behavior shows his original identity God-Heaven.One God, from his marriage to which Mother Earth has suffered nature and people.
Stribog more Perun can qualify for this feature.He is the god cosmogonical, antediluvian, unlike the god of warriors and rulers Perun.Lives Stribog, as expected, on the black rock on the sea-ocean.What does - the sources are silent.Thunderstorms and blowing, as it should.Ships drowns.Nevertheless, he was one of the gods of strange and eclectic pantheon of Vladimir.On the question of why this collection mentions "Tale of Bygone Years", the answer does not seem to find any one of the researchers.
God of wind in the fine arts
Mysterious giperboreets Borey was on one of the most famous paintings of the world's history, in the "Spring" by Botticelli.In the mystical tradition of the Priory of Sion, in this picture, see the arrival of Mary Magdalene in the South of France, after which she became the most honored female symbol of esoteric traditions.And meet the spring-Marie in France is not only the nymphs and France itself (the lady in a dress dotted with blue flowers), but Boreas.In the picture he is, however, a small but, interestingly, is flying from the east.
Winds poems and prose dedicated
interesting wind deities in one of Andersen's fairy tales.The path goes in search of paradise the young man through the cave of the winds, where the figures of the Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern Winds release of his bags storms, ruining mankind.Despite the fact that the wind brought the young man did to Eden, human nature prevented him stay there forever, and he returned to the Cave of the Winds.Interestingly, Voloshin has a good phrase: "I Gentiles in the flesh, and believe in the real existence of the pagan gods and demons at the same time I can not think outside of Christ."That's the proof - the gods of wind, early human gods, demons recognize Christ and are willing not only to give him power over the souls of men, but also to accompany a person in the kingdom of God, but man is weak.And his weakness he becomes uninteresting even windier gods.
