element

Lightning

Elements · Cosmos

A sudden sky-fire stroke. Storm speech and later electricity borrow it; not ordinary fire, and not thunder as the sound.

Hellenic religion

  • Lightning appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony places lightning among the sky-fire of Zeus’s war on the Titans. A named Hellenic lightning in that poem, not the keraunos object alone and not thunder as the sound alone.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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