Anemoi #2 "Euros" - The East Wind | Piano Solo
Channel: Ambrosia & Nepenthe
Date: 2022-04-20

Piano solo on the theme of the "Anemoi", Greek gods of the winds - Euros was the god of the east wind. https://www.instagram.com/brian_whitten_music/

"Send a breeze then, over the fields . . . soft wind . . . Euros (East Wind) : Euros, saviour of Sparta, may you come with victory at all times! Ie Paian, ieie Paian!" - Greek Lyric V Folk Songs, Frag 858 (from Strasbourg papyrus)

"The World's Creator (Fabricator Mundi) [perhaps Khronos (Chronos)] did not grant the Venti (Winds) [Anemoi] full freedom of the sky; who, even so, though each in separate regions rules his blasts, can well nigh tear the world apart, so fierce is brother's strife. Eurus (the East Wind) far withdrew towards the morning and the rose-red walls of royal Nabatae [Petra] and the Persian hills, clear in the long bright sunshine of the dawn." - Ovid, Metamorphoses

"Such a sea as even now you look upon, tossed by the winds (venti), on which you are none the less making ready to sail, despite the threatening floods. Whither are you flying? The tempest rises to stay you. Let the tempest be my grace! Look you, how Eurus (the East Wind) tosses the rolling waters!" - Ovid, Heroides

"[The setting of the Pleiades in November marked the onset of seasonal storms :] At no other season of the year does fiercer fear sway men's hearts; for then does Astraea [as the constellation Virgo] urge her plea, then does she implore Jove's [Zeus'] anger against the nations, and leaving the earth importunes Saturnus' star with her complaints. Then follows the darkling Eurus (East Wind), and with his brethren thunders upon the Aegean main, and all the sea strains shoreward." - Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica

"But when morning, the harbinger of Eos' (Dawn's) dewy car, scored the night with his ruddy gleams, then all awoke . . . Then the hot wind [Euros] returned on quick pinions to the lightbringing mansion of Helios (the Sun)." - Nonnus, Dionysiaca

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Artwork in order of appearance:

La nuit, effet de lune, 1909, Félix Vallotton
Light and Shadow, 1937, Franklin Carmichael
The Nickel Belt, 1928, Franklin Carmichael
Lake Wabagishik, 1928, Franklin Carmichael
Ill Omen, or, Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893, Frances Macdonald
The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, 1914, Childe Hassam
Bay of Islands, 1930, Franklin Carmichael
The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh
The Bride of the Wind, 1913-1914, Oskar Kokoschka
Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, 1921, Frederick Varley
East Wind, 1904, Théo van Rysselberghe
Coup de vent d’est, 1905, Théo van Rysselberghe
Fishing Boats at Sea, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh
Soir, Côte de Grace, 1917, Félix Vallotton
The Pink Cloud, Antibes, 1916, Paul Signac
Sailboats at Sea, Evening, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau
Sunset at Sea, 1911, Childe Hassam
Coucher de soleil à Grasse, 1918, Félix Vallotton