Cloud
Cloud denotes divine presence and concealment, rain, fertility, compassion, and prosperity; narratives may personify it as a mother or oppose it as a water-stealing storm.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Greek mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Nephele is Greek mythology
why
In Greek mythology, Nephele is the cloud-named wife of King Athamas and mother of Phrixus and Helle, who saves her children from sacrifice by sending them across the sea on a ram with a golden fleece.