WINDSINGER One who "whistles up winds" an old seafarer's nickname, a Sea Druid, my Religious (non-Birth) clan. Before MacMorgan, I was Kaatryn Windsinger.

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Ruah Hay-yom, Ruah Hayyah (Hebrew) The breath or wind of the day, or the cool part, the evening.

See also RUAH

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herb cupping: Variation of the water cupping method wherein the practitioner puts into the water an herb that helps to improve blood circulation and expel wind evil.

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Aeolus (Greek) In Greek and Roman mythology, son of Hippotes, appointed by Zeus as guardian of the winds. He lived on the island of Aeolia in the far west, its steep cliffs encircled by a brazen wall. There he kept the winds confined in a cave, letting them out as he pleased or as he was commanded by the gods. Later he was said to dwell on an island north of Sicily.

Also a grandson of Deucalion and son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, who was king of Magnesia in Thessaly and mythic ancestor of the Aeolian race.

See also WIND

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Pneuma (Greek) [from pneo to breathe]

Wind, air, breath, vitality, spirit, an animated being, also a spiritual being; in the New Testament (John 3:8) "The wind bloweth where it listeth . . . so is every one who comes into being (or becomes) out of the Spirit" -- the word for both wind and spirit is the single word pneuma. It is also translated in the New Testament as "ghost," as in Holy Ghost and yielded up the ghost, and as "spirit" in various senses. The same connection between air and spirit is seen in the Latin anima (life) and animus (mind), which derive from the same root as the Greek anemos (wind); also in spiritus [from spiro to blow, breathe]

, and the same holds good in other languages, illustrating the correlation of air or wind with vitality: jiva, prana, mind, manas, etc. The triad of sun or fire, moon or water, and pneuma, spirit, or wind, corresponds with Father-Mother-Son and with atma-buddhi-manas. The word is equivalent to breath so often used in The Secret Doctrine, in a comprehensive sense.

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Qedem (Hebrew) The east, the eastern country; applied to the east wind. Also used for former times, antiquity, as that which precedes the present and the future, just as the east is the quarter where the sun begins its heavenly journey before it reaches midheaven and sinks into the west.

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Pravaha (Sanskrit) [from pra forwards, onwards + the verbal root vah to carry]

Carrying forwards; one of the seven winds or cosmic spirits -- mystic, occult forces which give the impulse to, and regulate the course of, the stars and planets.

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Vayu:

Vayu: The demigod in charge of the wind. Air, vital energy, movement of the air in the control of the breathing process. In five types: going up (udana), going down (apana) expanding (vya na) balanced (samana) and higher (pranavayu).

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Anjaneya:

Anjaneya (Hanuman): Monkey warrior who became Rama's devoted friend and servant. (RRV2-4a), also called "Sun of the Wind-God Vayu" (RRV-5a)

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Hwyl (Welsh) Sail; the method of chanting used in Wales for poetry and rhetoric, the idea being that the inspiration drives and fills the spoken words with a certain vibrant, singing quality of sound, as the wind fills, swells, and drives the sails of a ship.

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Hwyl (Welsh) Sail; the method of chanting used in Wales for poetry and rhetoric, the idea being that the inspiration drives and fills the spoken words with a certain vibrant, singing quality of sound, as the wind fills, swells, and drives the sails of a ship.

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Kesarin (Sanskrit) Also Kesarin, Kesari. Having a mane; a variant name of Anjana, the naga or initiate who was the mother of Hanuman, the monkey-god of the Ramayana. Hanuman's father, the wind god (Pavana or Vayu), is at times also called Kesarin.

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Avadhuta (Sanskrit) (from ava-dhu to shake off)

Shaken off, dispelled, rejected, as applied to evil spirits or enemies; also applied to plants shaken by the wind. As a noun, one who has shaken off himself worldly feeling and shackling ties. Also one of the six degrees or stages of asceticism.

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Dodona (Greek) The most ancient oracle in Greece, situated in Epirus and founded by the Pelasgians. The will of Zeus was oracularly signified to the appointed seers by the rustling of the wind in the trees, or by the sounds of a spring arising from the roots of the sacred oak. This oracle, famous in Homeric times, was in later historic times superseded by that of Delphi.

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Vata: one of the three doshas, wind and gas. Vata: means “wind” literally. Va means movement. Vata is the source of both structure and function of the body. It is that which is represented by the five forms of the bodily currents: apana, udana, samana, vyana, apana. It is the initiator, controller, companion, organizer, stimulant of many functions of body mind and spirit.

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Mot (Phoenician) Also Mut. Equivalent to Ilus, original cosmic substance or stuff which, according to the cosmogony of Sanchoniathon, was produced by the embrace of Chaos and Wind, a name for cosmic spirit as the Greek pneuma or Latin spiritus means both spirit and wind. Out of Mot proceeded the monads of the hierarchies of universal manifestation, and consequently the emanation of the universe. Like the Sanskrit mahat, it alludes to the cosmic womb out of which emanated the universe.

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Vayu-bhuta (Sanskrit) [from vayu air, wind, cosmic spirit + bhuta element]

The air element; fifth in the descending scale of the seven comic bhutas. The cosmic element corresponding with prana in the human constitution.

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Vayu-tattva (Sanskrit) [from vayu air, wind, cosmic spirit + tattva thatness, reality]

The air principle; fifth in the descending scale of the seven tattvas.

See also ASURA

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Apana (Sanskrit). "Inspirational breath"; a practice in Yoga. Prana and apana are the "expirational" and the "inspirational" breaths. It is called "vital wind" in Anugita.

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Samvartta Kalpa (Sanskrit). The Kalpa or period of destruction, the same as Pralaya. Every root-race and sub-race is subject to such Kalpas of destruction; the fifth root-race having sixty-four such

Cataclysms periodically; namely: fifty-six by fire, seven by water, and one small Kalpa by winds or cyclones.

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Tiamat (Chald.). A female dragon personifying the ocean; the "great mother" or the living principle of chaos. Tiamat wanted to swallow Bel, but Bel sent a wind which entered her open mouth and killed Tiamat.

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TYPHON

Earth demon destroyed by Zeus. Father of Chimaera. Another name for Set (Slayer of Osiris). In the Wheel of Fortune, he is the destructive force of existence related to Capricorn (the culmination of Pisces' dissolution). God of evil winds. Typhon is the origin of the word, "typhoon."

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