Kaikias

Kaikias ( Greek  Καικίας ) is in Greek mythology the god of the northeast wind and thus one of the anemoi (wind gods). He is depicted as a bearded man with a shield full of hailstones, for example on the Tower of the Winds in Athens .

The name is derived from the river Kaïkos in Mysia , or the river god of the same name .

The Romans used the transliteration Caecius as the name of the corresponding wind . Occasionally, Volturnus appears, but it was used competitively to designate a southeast wind.

literature

• Christian Hünemörder: Kaikias. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 136.
• Albert Rehm: Kaikias. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, Sp. 1497-1500.