Powerful Winds In Ancient Beliefs

A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In ancient beliefs, the winds were of divine origin, but not everyone agreed on the place of their residence and lineage.

However, many agreed, through the ages, that the winds helped gods and goddesses in different, often most extraordinary situations. They also helped and endangered people.

Zephyrus blows Odysseus ship forward. Credit: Adobe Stock – Morphart

One of them was a highly respected and powerful goddess, Artemis. When Agamemnon, one of the legendary warriors of the Trojan War in the Iliad, once offended Artemis, she took revenge against him by calming the winds that bore Agamemnon’s fleet toward Troy. The gods of the four principal winds (northern, southern, eastern, and western) were Boreas, Notos, Zephyr, and Euros. All four Anemoi – were believed to be the sons of Astraeus, god of the dusk and the goddess of the dawn Eos.

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