Winds

Aeolus

  • keeper of the winds and king of the island of Aeolia, one of the abrupt rocky Lipara islands close to Sicily.

Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhâs)

  • cold north wind and the bringer of winter.
  • Son of Astraeus and Eos (Dawn)

Zephyrus

  • Son of Astraeus and Eos (Dawn)
  • west wind. The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the fructifying wind, the messenger of spring. It was thought that Zephyrus lived in a cave in Thrace.
  • husband of Iris, goddess of the rainbow.
  • abducted the goddess Chloris, and gave her the domain of flowers. With Chloris, he fathered Karpos (“fruit”).

Notus Auster

  • Son of Astraeus and Eos (Dawn)
  • south wind -desiccating hot wind of the rise of Sirius after midsummer, was thought to bring the storms of late summer and autumn, and was feared as a destroyer of crops.

Misc

  • Aquilo Septentrio - NE wind.
    • Romans sometimes used the name Septentrio, which refers to the seven (septem) stars of the Plow or Big Dipper constellation.