Myths Ledgends etc about storms/ storm gods?

Question

Over here in Aus~ My small town was battered with hail the size of golf balls on Tuesday, Damaging winds last night( turned our town to match sticks! (we are all ok)....some myths etc to tell my kids please as we mop up our town this morning and brace for the super cell expected to hit this afternoon?

Answer 1

Here I go with another of my segues.

A cloud is born of the heat of the sun, the vapor water, and the wind. In its youth the cloud may climb into the heights where a human would not find enough to breathe. Another young cloud may bubble and chuckle across the sky making shadow images on the Earth below. There are matured clouds who rise up and build drops of water who love the earth and all its plants and providing them with mostly gentle rain. Then, as there is day there must be night. There are clouds that are quick to anger. Throwing themselves and their burdens of water high into the sky and whirling through an atmosphere that becomes cold enough to freeze the water into ice. Then they turn their anger on the earth and suck at the land in anger as if to smooth away the marks of humankind. This is as it has been as long as there has been humankind and long before there were any to record it.

[I read the question and sat quietly a bit. What I just started writing because it was, is brand new, but I have the ego to call the above Folklore]

Answer 2

Like a hurricane by Neil Young When the Lightning Strikes by Aerosmith Shelter from the Storm by Bob Dylan Red Rain by Peter Gabriel

Answer 3

Zeus the God of thunder and lightening and of judgement
Thor the God of thunder and lightening and judgement
Mars the God of war and turmoil
Hinakuluiau the Hawaiian Goddess of Rain
Lono the Hawaiian god of wind and rain as well as peace and prosperity
Siva the Hindu god of destruction
Jengu - African god of the water spirits
Baiame the Aboriginal god of rain
Tlaloc Mayan God of rain and lightening
Ambisagrus the celtic god of rain and lightening
Tefnut the Egyptian god of- embodiment of rain, dew, clouds, and water-weather
Apocatequil Incan- god of lightning
Chaac the Mayan rain god
Those are just a few I can remember
If you want you can tell them that Gods have really bad head colds and everytime they sneeze we get wet and the winds blow really hard in all directions because some many have a head cold. Think of it as the Gods blowing their snot on you, and they laugh everytime it lightens or thunders because that is what it sounds like when the Gods sneeze. They even get a kick out of thinking that it is snot that is on them instead of water. My kids do. I know it sounds disgusting, but what kid doesn't like disgusting stuff?
Hope the like what I found.
Those kind of storms are common place in most of the US. Just be real careful and try to go to the lowest level of your home if possible or try to have everyone in your bathroom or interior closet located in the center of the home if a tornado comes. I lived through 3! We were very lucky with just a little roof damage and some broken tree limbs. Be careful and know that I am sending my protective energies to you and yours.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

American Indians have a lot of legends about storms. I have included one here, and links to several others.

A Jicarilla Apache Legend
In the beginning the earth was covered with water, and all living things were below in the underworld. Then people could talk, the animals could talk, the trees could talk, and the rocks could talk. It was dark in the underworld, and eagle plumes were used for torches. The people and the animals that go about by day wanted more light, but the night animals - the bear, the panther, and the owl - wanted darkness. After a long argument they agreed to play the thimble-and-button game, and if the day animals won there would be light, but if the night animals won it would always be dark.

The game began. The magpie and the quail, who love the light and have sharp eyes, watched until they could see the button through the thin wood of the hollow stick that served as a thimble. This told the people where the button was, and in the first round, the people won. The morning star came out and the black bear ran and hid in the darkness. They played again, and the people won. It grew bright in the east and the brown bear ran and hid in a dark place.

They played a third time, and the people won. It grew brighter in the east and the mountain lion slunk away into the darkness. They played a fourth time, and again the people won. The sun came up in the east, and it was day, and the owl flew away and hid. Even though it was light now, the people still didn't see much because they were underground. But the sun was high enough to look through a hole and discover that there was another world - this earth. He told the people, and they all wanted to go up there. They built four mounds to help them reach the upper world.

In the east they mounded the soil and planted it with all kinds of fruits and berries that were colored black. In the south they heaped up another mound and planted all kinds of fruits that were blue. In the west they built a mound that they planted with yellow fruits. In the north they planted the mound with fruits of variegated colors. The mounds grew into mountains and the bushes blossomed, fruited, and produced ripened berries.

One day two girls climbed up to pick berries and gather flowers to tie in their hair. Suddenly the mountains stopped growing. The people wondered, and they sent Tornado to learn the cause. Tornado went everywhere and went into every corner, and at last he found the two girls and brought them back to their people. But the mountains did not grow anymore, and this is why a boy stops growing when he goes with a woman for the first time. If he never did, he would continue to grow taller. The mountains had stopped growing while their tops were still a long way from the upper world. So the people tried laying feathers crosswise to make a ladder, but the feathers broke under weight. The people made a second ladder of larger feathers, but again they were too weak. They made a third ladder of eagle feathers, but even these would not bear much weight. Then a buffalo came and offered his right horn, and three others also contributed their right horns. The horns were strong and straight, and with them the people were able to climb up through the hole to the surface of the earth. But the weight of all those humans bent the buffalo horns, which have been curved ever since. Now the people fastened the sun and the moon with spider threads so that they could not get away, and sent them up into the sky to give light.

And since water covered the whole earth, four storms went to roll the waters away. The black storm blew to the east and rolled up the waters into the eastern ocean. The blue storm blew to the south and rolled up the waters in that direction. The yellow storm rolled up the waters in the west, and the varicolored storm went to the north and rolled up the waters there. So the tempests formed the four oceans in the east, the south, the west, and the north. Having rolled up the waters, the storms returned to where the people were waiting, grouped around the mouth of the hole. The Polecat first went out, when the ground was still soft, and his legs sank in the black mud and have been black ever since. They sent the Tornado to bring him back, because it wasn't time. The badger went out, but he too sank in the mud and got black legs, and Tornado called him back. Then the beaver went out, walking through the mud and swimming through the water, and at once began to build a dam to save the water still remaining in pools. When he did not return, Tornado found him and asked why he had not come back. "Because I wanted to save the water for the people to drink," said the beaver. "Good," said Tornado, and they went back together.

Again the people waited, until at last they sent out the gray crow to see if the time had come. The crow found the earth dry, and many dead frogs, fish, and reptiles lying on the ground. He began picking out their eyes and did not return until Tornado was sent after him. The people were angry when they found he had been eating carrion, and they changed his color to black. But now the earth was all dry, except for the four oceans and the lake in the center, where the beaver had dammed up the waters.

All the people came up. They traveled east until they arrived at the ocean; then they turned south until they came again to the ocean; then they went west to the ocean, and then they turned north. And as they went, each tribe stopped where it wanted to. But the Jicarillas (Apache) continued to circle around the hole where they had come up from the underworld. Three times they went around it, when the Ruler became displeased and asked them where they wished to stop. They said, "In the middle of the earth." So he led them to a place very near Taos and left them, and there near the Taos Indians, the Jicarillas made their home.

Here are a few more American Indian "storm" legends. The links next to the titles will take you to the stories.

The Origin of the Thunderbird (Passamaquoddy--an American Indian tribe of the U.S. northeast woodlands)
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore90.html

The Origin of the Winds (Aleuts--a tribe from Alaska)
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore91.html

The Thunder Helper (Creek--a tribe from the U.S. southeast woodlands) http://www.indianlegend.com/creek/creek_004.htm

The Thunder Nation and the Eagle (Cherokee of the U.S. southeast woodlands)
http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheThunderNationAndTheEagle-Unknown.html

Answer 6

its a myth just mother earth having strop ..hope you have surge protection hope your town is OK and the coming storm isn't to bad ....or as bad as predicted .good luck

Answer 7

Lots about Thor the thunderer, one i muchly like about him challenging the crone who challenges him to quaff three draughts from her horn. He never manages it. Ill see if I can get you a reference.

Wouldn't you just know it is in wiki :p

Answer 8

You can go on Google and search for storm gods.

Answer 9

I would say KISS they are the gods of thunder I will ask Gene about this and get back to you

Answer 10

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/se/wsgr/wsgr03.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/severestorms/legend.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/5132/dragons1.htm