Wind

Hellenic religion

• Wind appears in Hellenic religion.

  Hesiod’s Theogony names the winds among sky-born powers in cosmogonic speech. A named wind class in that poem, not air as a bare element slogan and not breath as pneuma.

  from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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Norse tradition

• Wind appears in Norse tradition.

  Snorri’s Gylfaginning has the eagle Hræsvelgr at the world’s end beat wings that make the winds. A named wind in that prose, not air as a bare element slogan and not Hesiod wind-class alone.

  from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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Chinese tradition

• Wind appears in Chinese tradition.

  The Yijing’s trigram speech seats Wind/Wood (Xùn) among the eight image-figures. A named wind image in that classic, not Norse wind walks alone and not a weather-report dump.

  from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

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Vedic tradition

• Wind appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda hymns Vāyu and the Maruts among wind and wind-troop speech. A named Vedic wind in that corpus, not Hesiod’s wind genealogy and not a generic weather dump.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Roman religion

• Wind appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats named winds and air motion among Book 2 meteorology. A named wind in that encyclopedia, not Hesiod’s cosmogonic winds already walked and not a weather-app dump.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Egyptian religion

• Wind appears in Egyptian religion.

  Herodotus’s Nile inquiry weighs etesian winds among theories of the inundation. A named wind in that Egyptian logos, not wind-hellenic appears_in already held and not a weather-app dump.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Nahua tradition

• Wind appears in Nahua tradition.

  Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records ehecatl among directional winds and Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl speech — named wind as force and divine epithet weather. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.

  from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577

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Shinto

• Wind appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki seats Susanoo among storm and wind-force outrage that darkens the weaving hall and drives Amaterasu into the cave, and names wind among the early kami world’s forces. Named wind in that narrative, not a meteorological dump alone and not Vayu as Vedic twin.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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Buddhist traditions

• Wind appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra names wind among the moving forces of Buddha-lands and cosmic scene-setting around the assembly. Wind speech in that sūtra, not a storm-god dump and not ordinary weather alone.

  from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Astrology

• Wind is used in Astrology.

  Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos treats winds among weather prediction and triplicity speech of judicial astrology. A named wind in that handbook, not Hesiod wind-genealogy alone and not Pliny marvel wind alone.

  from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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• Anemometer is historically related to Wind.

  EB1911 Anemometer seats the wind-speed measuring instrument — wind-instrument speech, not a weathercock alone.

  from Hugh Chisholm et al. · Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1910–1911

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• Air is associated with Wind.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, wind is a flowing wave of air, moving hither and thither indefinitely, produced when heat meets moisture — air becomes that wind.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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