For a project at my daughter’s school, I drew Helios (the Sun) and three wind gods, Boreas, Zephyr, and Notias. My friend, artist Alex Sanso, painted them.
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Can you explain the relation of the gods you have drawn?
Hi, Greg. Thanks for your e-mail. And cool last name! Notias (or Notus), from the south, is the rainy fall wind god. Zephyr (or Zephyrus), from the west, is the warm spring and early summer wind god. Boreas, out of the north, is the icy cold winter wind god. (The fourth wind god, Eurus, out of the east, isn’t that important and hardly ever mentioned.) Helios, the sun, and Boreas once had a contest to see who was the most powerful. They both tried to strip a traveler of his clothes. Boreas blew and blew, but the harder he blew, the more tightly the traveler wrapped his coat about him. Then Helios tried and he shone so intensely, that the traveler began to take off all his clothes and then, naked, reclined in the sun. This is the story Aesop told. The moral was that persuasion is stronger than force. The three wind gods and Helios were hung over the stage for a presentation at the school.