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Gods/Goddesses/Demigods * Adad - Mesopotamian weather and fertility god. Manifestation of huge storms in the Near east. Portreyed as a bull or lion. Human form as warrior or racing a chariot harnessed to storms. His symbol is forked lightning. (ME.62) * Marduke - Babylonian storm god. Chief god. He slew Tiamat by forcing violent wind down her throat, and she burst open. (DM.166) * Perkun - Balkan storm god. His lightning bolt symbol were arrows. * Thor - Norse god of thunder. Son of Odin. Used his hammer (a thunderbolt) and had a belt which renewed his power, and iron gloves that made him invincible. (DM.254) * Tjasse - Storm giant in Norse Mythology. (DM.257) * Tuí Tokelau - Tokelau islands - resides in the sky. Thunder/lightning appears when he does, fire is sacred to him. Cannibal god, snares the spirits of mortals at night. (DPoly.295) * Vanir - (Norse gods older than the Aesir) Originally raingods. Lived in Vanaheim. (DM.267) * Ygg - "the terrible one"- Odin's name as the god of storm and war. (DM.275) * Zeus - supreme Greek deity - originally a rain god, then a sky and thunder/thunderbolt god. Seen as a bearded man in full physical maturity. The son of Cronus and Rhea. (DM.276) Creatures/Beings/People * Tajin - Totonac belief that 12 old men called Tajin that live in the ruins of El Tajin, and are lords of the thunderstorm. (MEX.118) Symbols and Objects * Arrows - symbol of lightning bolt of the Balkan storm god "Perkun" (WDS.20) See war, power, lust) * Comb - female hair combing associated with control of the weather. Witch lore includes raising storms by combing out the hair (like falling water) (WDS.129) * Cross Saltire (a tumbling + to be an x) - Vedic tradition, 'the stone with 4 points that brings rain'. symbolises a thunderbolt (like the hammer of Thor). (WDS.49) * Dorje - Tantric buddhist scepter. Also northern india "vajra" at once, a jewel, thunderbolt, and phallus. The thunder bolt is the lightning god as fertilizer of Mother Earth's hidden depths. (WDS.22) (see fertility) * Trident - lightning bolt falling from heaven to fertilize the abyss, became associated with gods like Greek Poseidon and Roman Neptune - (therefore also became an alchemical sign for water.) (WDS.109) |