The Realm of Air
| Since the civilization of ancient Babylon, "air" has been considered a place that stores matters in as yet indeterminate form. In Ancient Greece this was represented by a human form provided with wings, or by the figure of birds. In the accounts of the universe handed down from classical antiquity to the Christian world, there is an iconology that represented the cardinal points of the compass with personifications of the "winds" East, west, south, and north, were respectively the realms of the East Wind (Eurus), the West Wind (Zephyrus), the South Wind (Boreas), and the North Wind(Notus). Judaeo-Christianity considered what the Greeks thought of as "wind" to be the "breath" issuing from the mouth of the creator, and regarded it as the "spiritus" that Lord God blew into the nose of the man he had fashioned out of earth (Adam). Thus "air" was regarded as having a primary importance in the creation of heaven and earth. |
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