Aeolus God of storms and wind
Classification: God
Culture/Pantheon: Greek
Associated: Wind, Storms
One of the sons of Poseidon said to have presented the winds in a leather bag to the hero Odysseus an to have given the sale to seafarers.
According to legend his home was the Aeolian islands which was a magical floating island.
In one legend he was married to Eos who was a second generation Titan and the daughter of Hyperion the Titan of Light.
Aeolus is the father of six sons who were the various directional winds. The hexagonal temple of winds depicted to Elio still stands at Athens.
He kept the violent Storm-Winds locked safely away inside the cavernous interior of his isle, releasing them only at the command of greatest gods to wreak devastation upon the world.
Name: Zeus King of Kings
Pantheon: Greek
Gender: Male
Known Aliases: King of Kings, The Father, King of Heaven
Associated: Lightening, sky, weather
Classification: Patron God
Period of Worship: 3500 B.C.E-Current
Discipline: E Particle
Height: unconfirmed
Weight: unconfirmed
Hair: Brown (variable)
Eyes: Green
Unusual Features:
Occupation: Ruler
Martial Status: Married
Known Affiliations: The Greek Gods
Known Relatives: Kronos (father), Hera (wife), Herkules (son)
Strength Class: 10
Weapons: the thunderbolt
Accessories
History: in ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god who was identical with the Roman god Jupiter (q.v.). Zeus was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, and winds, and his traditional weapon was the thunderbolt. He was called the father (i.e., the ruler and protector) of both gods and men.
According to a Cretan myth that was later adopted by the Greeks, Cronus, king of the Titans, upon learning that one of his children was fated to dethrone him, swallowed his children as soon as they were born. But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and hiding Zeus in a cave on Crete. There he was nursed by the nymph (or female goat) Amalthaea and guarded by the Curetes (young warriors), who clashed their weapons to disguise the baby's cries. After Zeus grew to manhood he led a revolt against the Titans and succeeded in dethroning Cronus, perhaps with the assistance of his brothers Hades and Poseidon, with whom he then divided dominion over the world.
As ruler of heaven Zeus led the gods to victory against the Giants (offspring of Gaea and Tartarus) and successfully crushed several revolts against him by his fellow gods. According to the Greek poet Homer, heaven was located on the summit of Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece and the logical home for a weather god. The other members of the pantheon resided there with Zeus and were subject to his will. From his exalted position atop Mount Olympus Zeus was thought to omnisciently observe the affairs of men, seeing everything, governing all, and rewarding good conduct and punishing evil. Besides dispensing justice, Zeus was the protector of cities, the home, property, strangers, guests, and supplicants.
Zeus was well known for his amorousness—a source of perpetual discord with his wife, Hera—and he had many love affairs with both mortal and immortal women. In order to achieve his amorous designs, Zeus frequently assumed animal forms, such as that of a cuckoo when he ravished Hera, a swan when he ravished Leda, or a bull when he carried off Europa. Notable among his offspring were the twins Apollo and Artemis, by the Titaness Leto; Helen and the Dioscuri, by Leda of Sparta; Persephone, by the goddess Demeter; Athena, born from his head after he had swallowed the Titaness Metis; Hephaestus, Hebe, Ares, and Eileithyia, by his wife, Hera; Dionysus, by the goddess Semele; and many others.
Though regarded by Greek religionists everywhere as omnipotent and the head of the pantheon, Zeus's very universality tended to reduce his importance compared to that of powerful local divinities like Athena and Hera. Although statues of Zeus Herkeios (Guardian of the House) and altars of Zeus Xenios (Hospitable) graced the forecourts of houses, and though his mountaintop shrines were visited by pilgrims, Zeus did not have a temple at Athens until the late 6th century BC, and even his temple at Olympia postdated that of Hera.
In art Zeus was represented as a bearded, dignified, and mature man of stalwart build; his most prominent symbols were the thunderbolt and the eagle.
Aerokinesis
is the psychic ability to manipulate, control, alter or create air molecules,
wind currents, and control air with the mind. The specific region of the brain
where this ability resides has not been successfully mapped.
Observations
of practitioners of Aerokinesis have shown the ability to control and amplify
ambient air currents.
The user can
create, shape and manipulate air, the common name given to the layer of
atmospheric gases and various compounds (mostly oxygen and nitrogen)
surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity, and possibly
wind, movement of air relative to the surface of the planet. It is an important
factor in determining and controlling climate and weather, and the generating
force of most ocean and freshwater waves. Wind occurs because of horizontal and
vertical differences in atmospheric pressure, and include breezes, squalls,
gusts, whirlwinds, zephyrs, gales, tempests, and hurricanes.
Aerokinesis
is the elemental ability to create, control and manipulate the air and wind in
a variety of offensive or
In Mythology
This ability
is attributed to deities associated with the weather or wind.
Air is a symbol of spiritual life, freedom, and purity air
is the primal element in most cosmology equated with the soul by many
philosophers.
Air shares much of
the symbolism of breath and wind. In terms of a spirit air is considered one of
the three great spirit forces in Inuit beliefs together with the sea spirit and
the moon spirit. It is known as weather or the intelligence the air spirit
lives far above the earth controlling rain, snow, weather, and sea. It is
inherently benevolent but is perceived of as threatening because of its
sensitivity to human misdeeds to which it responds by sending sickness, bad
weather and failure in hunting.
Kemetic Myth: Shu,
god of the Air.
He was called “the emptiness" or "he who rises
up" was one of the primordial Egyptian gods, spouse and brother to goddess
Tefnut, and one of the nine deities of the Ennead of the Heliopolis cosmogony.
He was the god of peace, lions, air, and wind.
Enlil, the Sumerian god of air, wind, breath, loft
is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth,
and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon,
but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and
Hurrians.
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The Norse God King Odin, was also considered a god of the air/breath.
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