North wind
{{Short description|A wind coming from the north}}
{{Other uses|North wind (disambiguation)}}
File:Boreas, the north wind; is cold, fierce and stormy - Stuart James & Revett Nicholas - 1762.jpg
A north wind originates in the north and blows in a southward direction. The wind has had historical and literary significance, since it often signals cold weather and seasonal change in the Northern hemisphere.
Mythology
- In Greek mythology, Boreas was the god of the north wind who gains his ends by force – except in Aesop's fable of The North Wind and the Sun.Encyclopaedia Britannica (1893), [https://books.google.com/books?id=zKs4AQAAMAAJ&dq=Encyclopaedia+Boreas&pg=PA53 Vol. 4, p.53]
- In Roman mythology the north wind was represented by Aquilon.[https://www.getty.edu/cona/CONAIconographyRecord.aspx?iconid=901001821 J. Paul Getty Trust iconography record]
- In Egyptian mythology, Qebui is the god of the north winds.{{Cite book|last=Hall|first=Adelaide S.|title=A Glossary of Important Symbols in Their Hebrew, Pagan & Christian Forms|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|year=2005|pages=15}}
- In Inuit mythology, Negafook represents "the North wind" or, more eloquently, "the spirit that likes cold and stormy weather".{{Cite web
| title = North Wind Mask (Negakfok)
| work = The Metropolitan Museum of Art
| accessdate = 2014-03-15
| url = http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/310528
}}