The Hindu wind god, Vayu.

A wind god is a god who controls the wind(s). Air deities may also be considered here as wind is nothing more than moving air. Many polytheistic religions have one or more wind gods. They may also have a separate air god or a wind god may double as an air god. Many wind gods are also linked with one of the four seasons.

Africa

Egyptian

Western Eurasia

Albanian

Balto-Slavic

Lithuanian

Slavic

Basque

Celtic

Germanic

Greco-Roman

Western Asia

Persian Zoroastarian

Mesopotamian

Uralic

Finnish

Hungarian

Sami

Asia-Pacific / Oceania

South and East Asia

India

Hindu-Vedic

Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Vietnamese

Austronesia

Philippine

Polynesian

Hawaiian

Winds of Māui

The Polynesian trickster hero Māui captured or attempted to capture many winds during his travels.

Māori

Native American

North America

Anishinaabe

Cherokee

Iroquois

Inuit

Lakota

Navajo


Pawnee

Central American and the Caribbean

Aztec

Statue of Ehecatl, on display at INAH

Mayan

Taino

South America

Quechua

Brazil

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tipsywriter".
  2. ^ Yeats, William Butler, The Collected Poems, 1933 (First Scribner Paperback Poetry edition, 1996), ISBN 0-684-80731-9 "Sidhe is also Gaelic for wind, and certainly the Sidhe have much to do with the wind. They journey in whirling wind, the winds that were called the dance of the daughters of Herodias in the Middle Ages, Herodias doubtless taking the place of some old goddess. When old country people see the leaves whirling on the road they bless themselves, because they believe the Sidhe to be passing by." Yeats' Notes, p.454
  3. ^ "Navajo Myth (Clear)". 22 March 2012.
  4. ^ "The Path on the Rainbow: (A Pawnee Ceremony)".