·Direct
The West wind blows fair and whistles over the deep-blue waves.
See evidence text
“a fair wind from the West, {22} that whistled over the deep blue waves”
Character · Individual
West wind
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- West wind
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Character
- Scope
- Individual
- Editorial note
- The source gives this named wind agency but does not explicitly call it a god.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
0
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
No presence observations in the processed scope.
Claims
5
·Direct
West Wind falls upon Ulysses with the other quarter winds, helping raise a tremendous sea.
See evidence text
“Winds from East, South, North, and West fell upon him all at the same time, and a tremendous sea got up”
·Simile
West Wind joins the other quarter winds in playing battledore and shuttlecock with Ulysses’s raft.
See evidence text
“It was as though the South, North, East, and West winds were all playing battledore and shuttlecock with it at once”
·Remembered
Aeolus releases the fair West Wind alone to blow the ship onward.
See evidence text
“The West wind which was fair for us did he alone let blow as it chose; but it all came to nothing”
·Remembered
A terrific West Wind squall snaps the mast’s forestays and sends the mast falling aft.
See evidence text
“a terrific squall from the West that snapped the forestays of the mast so that it fell aft”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
5
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Remembered
“The West wind which was fair for us did he alone let blow as it chose”
·Hypothetical
“South West or West”
·Remembered
“a terrific squall from the West”
·Remembered
“The gale from the West”
·Direct
“the wind blew strong from the West”