Wind god

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There are many different gods of Wind in different religions:

• Vayu, the Hindu God of Wind, Hanuman's father:

• Anemoi, the Greek wind gods Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus.
  • Venti, the Roman gods of the winds, were essentially renamed Anemoi. borrowed from the Greeks.

• Fūjin, the Japanese wind god and one of the eldest Shinto gods. According to legend, he was present at the creation of the world and first let the winds out of his bag to clear the world of mist. His origin is heavily influenced by the Greek wind god Boreas.

• In Norse mythology, Njord is the god of the wind. There are also four dvärgar (Norse dwarves), named Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri, and probably the four stags of Yggdrasil, personify the four winds, and parallel the four Greek wind gods.