The Air Spirit Air is a symbol of spiritual life
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.
Stribog is the name of the Slavic god of winds, sky and air.
The Norse God King Odin, was also considered a god of the air/breath.
Persian Zoroastarian Vata is the god of atmosphere/air.
