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Lips
God of the Southwest Wind
Greek	Λίψ
Abode	Sky
Genealogy
Parents	Eos and Astraeus
Siblings	Anemoi

In Greek mythology and religion, Lips (Ancient Greek: Λίψ) is the god of the southwest wind and one of the Anemoi (wind-gods), sons of the dawn goddess Eos and the star-god Astraeus. On the Tower of the Winds he is depicted as a winged man holding the stern of a ship.

His Roman form is Africus.

Genealogy

Reference

1. "ANEMOI - Greek Gods of the Winds (Roman Venti)". www.theoi.com. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
2. "Definition - Numen - The Latin Lexicon - An Online Latin Dictionary - A Dictionary of the Latin Language". latinlexicon.org. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
3. "Athens Photos". web.archive.org. 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2024-12-24.
4. Hesiod, Theogony 132–138, 337–411, 453–520, 901–906, 915–920; Caldwell, pp. 8–11, tables 11–14.
5. Although usually the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, as in Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes.
6. Astraea is not mentioned by Hesiod, instead she is given as a daughter of Eos and Astraeus in Hyginus Astronomica 2.25.1.
7. According to Hesiod, Theogony 507–511, Clymene, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351, was the mother by Iapetus of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus, while according to Apollodorus, 1.2.3, another Oceanid, Asia was their mother by Iapetus.
8. According to Plato, Critias, 113d–114a, Atlas was the son of Poseidon and the mortal Cleito.
9. In Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 18, 211, 873 (Sommerstein, pp. 444–445 n. 2, 446–447 n. 24, 538–539 n. 113) Prometheus is made to be the son of Themis.

• Anemoi