#storm deities

Florence is pounding at the coastline of the Carolinas as I write. If you’ve been watching meteorologists’ predictions this past week, you’ll have noticed how frequently and wildly projections of her path have changed. She is a massive, powerful, and unpredictable force. Storms like Florence remind us of Mother Nature’s terrible power and that, in spite of all our cunning and advanced technology, we cannot control her; we remain subject to her, a small part of the greater tapestry of teeming, whirling life.

During a power outage, you can always tell where the Pagans live.

There are all different types of strength and ways that manifests, craftsman deities might be something looking in to if that is something that draws your attention.

The Dagda might be worth checking in to, maybe Hephaestus, it really has a lot to do with what sort of strength you're really looking for. Deities that have strong ties to athletics will be good choices.

As far as storm deities go though...

Cailleach is a Celtic Goddess of winter and much of her imagery leads to that of storms, I believe in Scotland she gets referred to as a Storm Hag. Beira is another goddess with similar role and function. Sometimes these two are considered different translations of the same goddess.

Aegier and Ran are Norse giants who dwell beneath the oceans, Ran specifically is a goddess of seas and storms.

There are going to be many examples in Greek mythos: Zeus, Poseidon various smaller gods of the winds. Theoi is the place to go for them.

Off of the top of my head, those are the ones that I can immediately think of. Anyone else?

-tranquilgenius

The Tempestates and Iuno are associated with storms, while Iuppiter and Summanus are associated with thunder and lightning.  Those were for the Roman pantheon; for the Greek pantheon, there's Zeus.

In the Etruscan pantheon, Tinia is the chief god who wields lightning and creates thunder, but Uni, Menrva, Sethlans, Laran, and several others are capable of wielding lightning as well.  In addition, Satre is a god who can make thunder.

The Kemetics have Set, a god of storms; the Norse have Thor; there's Perun, a Slavic god of thunder and lightning; Adad is an Akkadian god of storms and thunder.