Thunderstorms are commonly depicted as the rage of the deity which is associated with it.
Polytheistic peoples from many cultures have 💸 postulated a thunder god, the personification or source of the forces of thunder and lightning; a lightning god does not 💸 have a typical depiction, and will vary based on the culture. In Indo-European cultures, the thunder god is frequently known 💸 as the chief or King of the Gods, e.g. Indra in Hinduism, Zeus in Greek mythology, and Perun in ancient 💸 Slavic religion.
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Kidul (Kalinga mythology) [1]
Ovug (Ifugao mythology) [2]
Aninitud angachar (Ifugao mythology) 💸 [3]
Child of Kabunian (Ibaloi mythology) [4]
Kidu (Bugkalot mythology) [5]
Revenador (Ilocano mythology) [6]
Bathala (Tagalog mythology) [7]
Kidlat (Tagalog mythology) [8]
Gugurang (Bicolano mythology) 💸 [9]
Linti (Bicolano mythology) [10]
Dalodog (Bicolano mythology) [11]
Kaptan (Bisaya mythology) [12]
Linting Habughabug (Capiznon mythology) [13]
Ribung Linti (Suludnon mythology) [14]
Upu Kuyaw (Pala'wan 💸 mythology) [15]
God of Animals (Surigaonon mythology) [16]
Diwata Magbabaya/Bathala (Subanon mythology) [17]
Anit/Anitan (Manobo mythology) [18]
Spirit of Lightning and Thunder (Teduray mythology)[19]
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The 💸 Hindu God Indra was the chief deity and at his prime during the Vedic period, where he was considered to 💸 be the supreme God.[24][25] Indra was initially recorded in the Rigveda, the first of the religious scriptures that comprise the 💸 Vedas.[26] Indra continued to play a prominent role throughout the evolution of Hinduism and played a pivotal role in the 💸 two Sanskrit epics that comprise the Itihasas, appearing in both the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Although the importance of Indra has 💸 since been subsided in favor of other Gods in contemporary Hinduism, he is still venerated and worshipped.
In Greek mythology, the 💸 Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, was the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous, 💸 evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.[27] This could be a reference to 💸 Zeus, the god of lightning, so "lightning-struck" could be saying that the person was blessed (struck) by Zeus (/lightning/fortune). Egyptologist 💸 Jan Assmann has also suggested that Greek Elysion may have instead been derived from the Egyptian term ialu (older iaru), 💸 meaning "reeds," with specific reference to the "Reed fields" (Egyptian: sekhet iaru / ialu), a paradisiacal land of plenty where 💸 the dead hoped to spend eternity.[28]
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