#thunder deities

Wan'an Palace (萬安宮), a cozy and old rural temple in Dehua village (德化仙境村), Fujian, dedicated to Thunder deities. Natural detail of the fairy landscape.

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.

Being daughter of two fathers (gods, being gods, can do that sort of thing), it makes sense that she should be patron of same-sex love.*

-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.