AIOLOS (or Aeolus) was the king of the winds who kept the stormy Anemoi Thuellai and Aellai locked away inside the hollow heart of the floating island of Aiolia. At the command of the gods he released these to wreck devastating storms. Since the Winds were often conceived of as horse-shaped spirits, Aiolos was titled Hippotades, "the reiner of horses," from the Greek hippos ("horse") and tadên ("reined in tightly").

Homer's wind-god Aiolos bears quite a few similarities to Hesiod's Ouranos--both are described as having six sons and daughers joined in wedlock, and both trapped the storm-winds behind a threshold of bronze. In the case of Ouranos, the twelve children were the Titan-gods, while the storm-spirits were the giant Hekatonkheires and Kyklopes.
Aiolos also bears a resemblance to Hesiod's Titan-god of the winds and stars, Astraios. Stesichorus apparently confirms this connection when he describes Aiolos Hippotades as the cousin of Iris Thaumantias ("the wondrous rainbow"). It should also be noted that the Greek words aiolos ("glittering"), aiolokhros ("spangled"), and astraios ("starry") were all adjectives applied to the starry night-sky (ouranos).



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Αίολος -> Aeolus

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