Mist
Mist denotes divine concealment, fertility, primordial confusion, and the initiate’s passage toward illumination; Māori cosmology also places it among storm-born waters.
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
Her name is associated with clouds, and later interpreters connect her to a broader pattern in Greek myth of cloud-formed women, most famously the cloud-phantom created by Zeus in the story of Ixion, though sources do not always draw a direct line between that cloud-woman and Athamas's wife Nephele beyond the shared name and association with cloud and mist.