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Boreas

North Wind

also: Βορέης, North Wind

The North Wind personified; one of the storm winds Poseidon rouses against Odysseus's raft, and later the single fair wind Athena raises to blow him safely to the Phaeacians.

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The Iliad poem · 12 mentions
The Odyssey poem · 9 mentions

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