Deity Greek and Roman
Boreas
Greek mythological personification and god of the North wind, storms,, winter, loneliness, solitude, absence, lack, sadness, depression, calmness and serenity
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Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Boreas
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 23
Kinship in an account 21
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
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child of (child) Astraeus Greek astrological god associated with winds -
child of (child) Eos Greek goddess of the dawn - parent of (father) Aura
- parent of (child) Aurai winged nymphs of the breezes in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Boreads group of Greek mythical characters, including all descendants of Boreas
- parent of (child) Butes mythical son of Boreas
- parent of (child) Calais mythical son of Boreas
- parent of (child) Chione mythological Greek character, daughter of Boreas
- parent of (child) Cleopatra Greek mythological figure, daughter of Boreas
- parent of (child) Haemus mythical son of Boreas
- parent of (child) Hekaerge Hyperborean maiden
- parent of (child) Hyrpax son of Boreas in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Loxo daughter of Boreas in Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Zetes son of Boreas in Greek mythology
- partner of Aellopoda one of the Harpies in Greek mythology
- partner of Chione figure in Greek mythology, daughter of Arkturos
- partner of Chloris mother of Hyrpace
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partner of (spouse) Orithyia legendary princess of Athens -
sibling of Euros the Greek deity representing the unlucky east wind , autumn, fall of leaves, agriculture, harvest, change , balance , comfort ,adulthood and maturity -
sibling of Notus god of the south wind, storms of late summer and early autumn, wetness, mist, energy, radiance, dryness, freshness, activity, youth and rain in Greek mythology -
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sibling of Zephyrus Greek god of the wind from the west, spring, fertility, procreation, luck, rebirth, vegetation, flowers, bees and honey
Family 2
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching
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Connections
How Boreas connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
22 statements on this record
- 4 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 18 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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