A wind god is a god who controls the wind(s). Air deities may also be considered here as

wind Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hou ...

is nothing more than moving

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. 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. Sometimes even a water god. Many wind gods are also linked with one of the 4 seasons.

Africa and the Middle East

Afroasiatic Middle East

Egyptian

Amun Amun (; also ''Amon'', ''Ammon'', ''Amen''; egy, jmn, reconstructed as (Old Egyptian and early Middle Egyptian) → (later Middle Egyptian) → (Late Egyptian), cop, Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, Amoun) romanized: ʾmn) was a major ancient Egyptian ...

, god of creation and the wind. * Henkhisesui, god of the east wind. * Ḥutchai, god of the west wind. *

Qebui Qebui is the Egyptian god of the North Wind. In art, Qebui appears as a man with four ram Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to: Animals * A male sheep * Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish People * Ram (given name) * Ram (surname) * Ram (d ...

, god of the north wind who appears as a man with four ram heads or a winged ram with four heads. * Shehbui, god of the south wind. * Shu, god of the air.

Mesopotamian

Enlil Enlil, , "Lord f theWind" later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Bab ...

, the Sumerian god of air, wind, breath, loft. *

Ninlil Ninlil ( DINGIR, DNIN (cuneiform), NIN.LÍL; meaning uncertain) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Enlil. She shared many of his functions, especially the responsibility for declaring destinies, and like him was regarded as a senio ...

, goddess of the wind and consort of Enlil. *

Pazuzu In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu ( akk, , translit=pà.zu.zu; also called Fazuzu or Pazuza) was a personification of the southwestern wind, and held kingship over the lilu wind demons. As an apotropaic entity, he was considered as bo ...

, king of the wind demons, demon of the southwest wind, and son of the god

Hanbi In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology (and Mesopotamian mythology in general) Hanbi or Hanpa (more commonly known in western text) was the god of evil, god of all evil forces and the father of Pazuzu and Humbaba. Aside from his relationship with P ...

Western Eurasia

Albanian

Shurdhi Shurdh ( sq-definite, Shurdhi) is a weather and storm god in Albanian pagan mythology, who causes hailstorms and throws thunder and lightning. Shurdh was worshiped in northern Albania until recent times. He is thought to have been an ancient Illy ...

, weather god who causes hailstorms and throws thunder and lightning. *

Verbti Verbt ( sq-definite, Verbti) is a fire, water and wind god in Albanian pagan mythology. He controls fire, water as the opposite element to fire, and the northern wind which fans the flames of fire. Also known as ''Shën Verbti'' or ''Rmoria'', he ...

, weather god who causes hailstorms and controls the water and the northern wind.

Balto-Slavic

Lithuanian

Vejopatis The list of Lithuanian gods is reconstructed based on scarce written sources and late folklore. Lithuania converted to Christianity in 1387, but elements of Lithuanian mythology survived into the 19th century. The earliest written sources, author ...

, god of the wind according to at least one tradition.

Slavic

* Dogoda is the goddess of the west wind, and of love and gentleness. *

Stribog Stribog is a god in Slavic mythology found in three East Slavic sources, whose cult may also have existed in Poland. The sources do not inform about the functions of the god, but nowadays he is most often interpreted as a wind deity who distribut ...

is the name of the

Slavic god The pagan Slavs were polytheistic, which means that they worshipped many gods and goddesses. The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number of chronicles and letopises, or not very accurate Christian sermons against paganism. Addi ...

of winds, sky and air. He is said to be the ancestor (grandfather) of the winds of the eight directions. *

Moryana Moryana (russian: Моря́на, ) is a female sea spirit in Slavic folklore, possibly a goddess. Moryana was a sea vodyanitsa and daughter of the Morskoy Tsar, and also, according to some beliefs, she ruled the winds. Sometimes the ''moryany/mor ...

is the personification of the cold and harsh wind blowing from the sea to the land, as well as the water spirit. *

Varpulis Slavic pseudo-deities (pseudo-gods, pseudo-goddesses) are Slavic deities that exist in popular or even scientific literature : ''For a broader class of literature, see Academic publishing.'' Scientific literature comprises scholarly public ...

is the companion of the thunder god Perun who was known in Central Europe and Lithuania.

Basque

Egoi Egoi was a minor divinity among the Basques The Basques ( or ; eu, euskaldunak ; es, vascos ; french: basques ) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry ...

, god of the south wind. * Sídhe or

Aos Sí ' (; older form: ) is the Irish name for a supernatural race in Celtic mythology – spelled ''sìth'' by the Scots, but pronounced the same – comparable to fairies or elves. They are said to descend from either fallen angels or the Tuat ...

were the pantheon of pre-Christian

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. ''Sídhe'' is usually taken as "fairy folk", but it is also Old Irish for wind or gust. * Borrum, Celtic god of the winds.

Norse-Germanic

*Kári, son of

Fornjót Fornjót (Old Norse: ''Fornjótr'') is a jötunn in Norse mythology, and the father of Hlér ('sea'), Logi ('fire') and Kári ('wind'). It is also the name of a legendary king of " Finnland and Kvenland". The principal study of this figure i ...

and brother to

Ægir Ægir (anglicised as Aegir; Old Norse 'sea'), Hlér (Old Norse 'sea'), or Gymir (Old Norse less clearly 'sea, engulfer'), is a jötunn and a personification of the sea in Norse mythology. In the Old Norse record, Ægir hosts the gods in his halls ...

and Logi, god of wind, apparently as its personification, much like his brothers personify sea and fire. * Njord, god of the wind, especially as it concerns sailors. *

Odin Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered Æsir, god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, v ...

, thought by some scholars to be a god of the air/breath.

Greco-Roman

Aeolus In Greek mythology, Aeolus or Aiolos (; grc, Αἴολος , ) is a name shared by three mythical characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which A ...

, keeper of the winds; later writers made him a full-fledged god. *

Anemoi In ancient Greek religion and myth, the Anemoi (Greek: , 'Winds') were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came (see Classical compass winds), and were each associated with various seasons an ...

, (in

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

, Ἄνεμοι—"winds") were the Greek wind gods. ** Boreas (Βορράς), god of the north wind and of winter. **

Eurus In ancient Greek religion and myth, the Anemoi (Greek: , 'Winds') were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came (see Classical compass winds), and were each associated with various seasons and ...

(Έβρος), god of the east or southeast wind. **

Notus In ancient Greek religion and myth, the Anemoi (Greek: , 'Winds') were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came (see Classical compass winds), and were each associated with various seasons ...

(Νότος), god of the south wind. **

Zephyrus In ancient Greek religion and myth, the Anemoi (Greek: , 'Winds') were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came (see Classical compass winds), and were each associated with various seasons an ...

(Ζέφυρος), god of the west wind. ** Aparctias, another name for the north wind (not identified with Boreas). ** Apheliotes, god of the east wind (when Eurus is considered southeast). ** Argestes, another name for the west or northwest wind. ** Caicias (Καικιας), god of the northeast wind. ** Circios or Thraskias, god of the north-northwest wind. ** Euronotus (Εβρονοτος), god of the southeast wind. ** Lips (Λίψ), god of the southwest wind. ** Skeiron, god of the northwest wind. ** Leuconotus (Λιβονοτος), god of south-southwest wind. * Aura, the breeze personified. * Aurai, nymphs of the breeze. *

Cardea Cardea or Carda was the ancient Roman goddess of the hinge (Latin ''cardo, cardinis''), Roman doors being hung on pivot hinges. The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the ...

, Roman goddess of health, thresholds, door hinges, and handles; associated with the wind. * Venti, (Latin, "winds") deities equivalent to the Greek Anemoi.

Western Asia

Hindu-Vedic

Maruts In Hinduism, the Maruts (; sa, मरुत), also known as the Marutagana and sometimes identified with Rudras, are storm deities and sons of Rudra and Prisni. The number of Maruts varies from 27 to sixty (three times sixty in RV 8.96.8). T ...

, attendants of Indra, sometimes the same as the below group of gods. *

Rudra Rudra (; sa, रुद्र) is a Rigvedic deity associated with Shiva, the wind or storms, Vayu, medicine, and the hunt. One translation of the name is 'the roarer'. In the Rigveda, Rudra is praised as the 'mightiest of the mighty'. Rud ...

, wind or storm god. *

Rudras Rudras refer to the forms of the god Rudra, whose traditions have since been associated with Shiva. They make up eleven of the thirty-three gods in the Vedic pantheon.Hopkins pp. 172-3 They are at times identified with the storm deities referred ...

, followers of Rudra. *

Vayu Vayu (, sa, वायु, ), also known as Vata and Pavana, is the Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine massenger of the gods. In the ''Vedic scriptures'', Vayu is an important deity and is closely associated with Indra, the king of ...

, god of wind.

Persian Zoroastarian

Vayu-Vata Vāyu-Vāta or ''Vāta-Vāyu'' (IPA: ) is the Avestan language name of a dual-natured Zoroastrian divinity of the wind (Vayu) and of the atmosphere (Vata). The names are also used independently of one another, with 'Vayu' occurring more frequent ...

, two gods often paired together; the former was the god of wind and the latter was the god of the atmosphere/air.

Uralic

Finnish

Ilmarinen Ilmarinen (), the Eternal Hammerer, blacksmith and inventor in the ''Kalevala'', is a god and archetypal artificer from Finnish mythology. He is immortal and capable of creating practically anything, but is portrayed as being unlucky in love. He i ...

, blacksmith and god of the wind, weather and air. * Tuuletar, goddess or spirit of the wind.

Hungarian

* Szélatya, the Hungarian god of wind. * Szélanya, the Hungarian goddess of wind and daughter of the primordial god Kayra. *Zada, keeper of the precious

Yada Tashy Yada Tashy ( Turkish: ''Yada Taşı''; Bashkir: ''Йәй Ташы'', Azeri: ''Yada Daşı'', means "Originator Stone" or "Rain Stone"; ar, حجر المطر, ''Hajaru-l-Matar''; fa, سنگ بده, ''Sang-i-Yada'') is a legendary folkloric substa ...

stone.

Sami

Bieggolmai Bieggolmai, Biegolmai, Biegkålmaj, or Bieggålmåj ("the man of the wind") is the unpredictable deity of the summer winds and storms in Sami religious practice. He is generally portrayed with two shovels in his hands, which he used to shuff ...

, unpredictable shovel-wielding god of the summer winds. * Biegkegaellies, god of the winter winds.

Asia-Pacific / Oceania

South and East Asia

India

, god of the winds and air. *

, Vedic god of storms, winds, and the hunt. *

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, consort of

and

shakti In Hinduism, especially Shaktism (a theological tradition of Hinduism), Shakti (Devanagari: शक्ति, IAST: Śakti; lit. "Energy, ability, strength, effort, power, capability") is the primordial cosmic energy, female in aspect, and rep ...

or power that of

Chinese

Fei Lian Feilian (), also known as Xie Feng is the Chinese god of the wind, or Feng Bo. He is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and the tail of a snake. He carries wind with him in a bag and stirs up trouble. Feilian is kept in check by Houyi, the ...

, the Chinese wind god; Feng Bo is the human form of Fei Lian. *

Feng Po Po Feng Po Po (), also called Feng Popo or Feng Pho Pho, is the goddess of the wind in Chinese mythology who rules over storms and moisture. She is referred to as "Madame Wind", and is usually depicted as a crone, old and wrinkled. Feng Po Po can be s ...

, the Chinese wind goddess. * Feng Closa, general of the wind. * Han Zixian, assistant goddess of the wind.

Japanese

Fūjin or is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the eldest Shinto gods. He is portrayed as a terrifying wizardly demon, resembling a red-headed green-skinned humanoid wearing a leopard skin, carrying a large bag of winds on his shoulders. In Ja ...

, the wind god. * Shinatsuhiko, god of the winds. * Susanoo, the god of storms.

Korean

* Yondung Halmoni, goddess revered by farmers and sailors.

Vietnamese

* Thần Gió, the wind god.

Austronesia

Philippine

*Amihan, the Tagalog and Visayan goddess of the northeast winds. She is also known as Alunsina. * Anitun Tabu, the fickle-minded ancient Tagalog goddess of wind and rain. * Apo Angin, the Ilocano god of wind. *Buhawi, the Tagalog god of whirlwinds and hurricanes' arcs. He is the enemy of Habagat. *Habagat, the Tagalog god of winds and also referred to as the god of rain, and is often associated with the rainy season. He rules the kingdom of silver and gold in the sky, or the whole Himpapawirin (atmosphere). * Lihangin, the Visayan god of the wind. * Linamin at Barat, the goddess of monsoon winds in Palawan. *San Gabriel, the god of the wind of Caloocan. *

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, the eyes of the wind in Caloocan.

Polynesian

Hawaiian

* Hine-Tu-Whenua, Hawaiian goddess of wind and safe journeys. * La'a Maomao, Hawaiian god of the wind and forgiveness. * Pakaa, Hawaiian god of the wind and inventor of the sail.

= Winds of Māui

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

Fisaga Fisaga in Samoan mythology is a light and the gentle breeze. In one Samoan legend, Tiʻitiʻi In Samoan legend, the mythological figure Tiitii Atalaga appears in legends very similar to those recounting the tales of the demigod Māui, found in ot ...

, the gentle breeze, the only wind that Māui failed to capture *

Mata Upola In Polynesian mythology, Mata Upola or Marangai was the third wind that Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th largest island ...

, the

east wind An east wind is a wind that originates in the east and blows in a westward direction. This wind is referenced as symbolism in mythology, poetry and literature. In mythology In Greek mythology, Eurus, the east wind, was the only wind not associate ...

. *

Matuu In Polynesian mythology, Matuu or Matu is the god of the north wind and the second wind to be controlled by Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 ...

, the north wind.

Māori

Hanui-o-Rangi In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa (or Ranginui and Papatūānuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world (though there are many different versions). In some South Island dialects, Rangi is called Raki or Ra ...

. *

Tāwhirimātea In Māori mythology, Tāwhirimātea (or Tāwhiri) is the god of weather, including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms. He is a son of Papatūānuku (earth mother) and Ranginui ( sky father). Tawhirimatea is the second oldest of 7 chi ...

, Māori god of weather, including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds, and storms.

Native American

North America

Anishinaabe

* Epigishmog, god of the west wind and spiritual being of ultimate destiny.

Cherokee

* Oonawieh Unggi, the ancient spirit of the wind.

Iroquois

* Da-jo-jo, mighty panther spirit of the west wind. * Gǎ-oh, spirit of the wind. * Ne-o-gah, cam dubs gentle fawn spirit of the south wind. * O-yan-do-ne, moose spirit of the east wind. * Ya-o-gah, destructive bear spirit of the north wind who is stopped by Gǎ-oh.

Inuit

Silap Inua In Inuit religion, Silap Inua ('possessor of spirit', ᓯᓚᑉ ᐃᓄᐊ) or Silla ('breath, spirit', ᓯᓪᓚ) is similar to mana or ether, the primary component of everything that exists; it is also the breath of life and the method of locomo ...

, the weather god who represents the breath of life and lures children to be lost in the tundra.

Lakota

* Okaga, fertility goddess of the south winds. * Taku Skanskan, capricious master of the four winds. *

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, a wind god or spirit in Lakota mythology. * Waziya, giant of the north winds who brings icy weather, famine, and diseases. * Wiyohipeyata, god of the west winds who oversees endings and events of the night. * Wiyohiyanpa, god of the east winds who oversees beginnings and events of the day. * Yum, the whirlwind son of Anog Ite.

Navajo

* Niltsi, ally of the Heroic Twins and one of the guardians of the sun gods.

Pawnee

* Hotoru, the giver of breath invoked in religious ceremonies.

Central American and the Caribbean

Aztec

Cihuatecayotl In Aztec mythology, Cihuatecayotl (roughly pronounced 'see-wah-teh-kye-olth') is the god of the West wind. His brothers are Mictlanpachecatl, Tlalocayotl, and Huitztlampaehecatl, who personify the winds from the north, east, and south respectivel ...

, god of the west wind. *

Ehecatotontli ''Ehecatotontli''See Ehecatotontli section on the list of Aztec gods and supernatural beings to tell you that this is real, but not fake. is an Aztec group of gods that are forms of Ehecatl. They are also known as ''Ehecacoamixtli''. The Ehecat ...

, gods of the breezes. *

Ehecatl Ehecatl ( nci-IPA, Ehēcatl, eʔˈeːkatɬ, ) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica. He is most usually interpreted a ...

, god of wind. *

Mictlanpachecatl In Aztec mythology, Mictlanpachecatl (pronounced: mikt-*lawn-pah-che-kot) is the god of the North wind. His brothers are Cihuatecayotl, Tlalocayotl, and Huitztlampaehecatl, who personify the winds from the west, east, and south South is one of ...

, god of the north wind. *

Tezcatlipoca Tezcatlipoca (; nci, Tēzcatl ihpōca ) was a central deity in Aztec religion, and his main festival was the Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May. One of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the God of providence, he is a ...

, god of the night wind and hurricanes. *

Tlalocayotl In Aztec mythology, Tlalocayotl (pronounced '*Tlah-low-kye-ottle') is the god of the East wind. His brothers are Cihuatecayotl, Mictlanpachecatl, and Huitztlampaehecatl, who personify the winds from the west, north, and south, respectively. Se ...

, god of the east wind. * Vitztlampaehecatl, god of the south wind.

Mayan

* Hurácan,

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creator god of the winds, storms and fire. * Pauahtuns, wind deities associated with the

Bacab Bacab () is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. ...

and

Chaac Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk ) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lighting. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among ...

Taino

Guabancex Guabancex is the zemi or deity of chaos and disorder which the Taíno natives in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Cuba, Arawak natives elsewhere in the Caribbean. She was described as a mercurial goddess that controlled the weather, conjur ...

, goddess of the wind and hurricanes.

South America

Quechua

Huayra-tata Wayra Tata ("Father of Wind"), also transliterated as Huayra-tata, was a god worshiped by the Puruhá Quechuas and Aymaras of the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes prior to European colonization. The god was represented as a human figure with two h ...

, god of the winds.

Brazil

* Iansã / Oyá, goddess of the winds.

References

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