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The Anemoi (the Winds) Names: Boreas (North Wind), Kaikias (North-East Wind), Apeliotes (East Wind), Euros (South-East Wind), Notos (South Wind), Lips (South-West Wind), Zephyros (West Wind), Skiron (North-West Wind) Symbols: Boreas - shaggy hair and beard, billowing cloak and a conch shell in his hands Kaikias - bearded, shield and hail stones Apeliotes - cleanshaven, cloak full of grain and fruit Euros - bearded, heavy cloak Notos - vase of water Lips - stern of a ship Zephyros - beardless youth, flowers Skiron - bearded, a cauldron Animal(s): none Sacrifices: lambs, goats, rams, wheat, any aromatic herbs and incenses Primary Cult Center(s): Crete, Athens, Thrace Festivals: mostly votive sacrifices For more information: Alcaeus' Fragments 319 Apollodorus's Library 1.8-9 Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica 1.574, 1.640, 6.164, 8.322, 8.350 Herodotus' Histories 7.178.1 Hesiod's Theogony 378, 869 Hesiod's Catalogues of Women 47 Homer's Iliad 9.4, 23.194-230 Homer's Odyssey 5.291, Nonnos' Dionysiaca 2.392, 2.524, 6.18, 12.59, 13.381, 41.155, 41.263, 47.356, 47.340 Ovid's Metamorphoses 1.57 Pausanias' Guide to Greece 2.12.1, 9.34.3 Pindar's Maiden Songs Frag 104 Simonides' Fragments 535 Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy 2.549, 3.580, 12.189