Grozen Boreas, god of the indomitable, stormy north wind. Furious, he rushes over the lands and seas, causing all-crushing storms with his flight. One day Boreas, flying over Attica, saw the daughter of Erechtheus Orithia and fell in love with her. Boreas begged Orithia to become his wife and allow him to take her with him to his kingdom in the far north. Orithia did not agree; she was afraid of the formidable, stern god. Boreas was also refused by Orithia's father, Erechtheus. No requests, no pleas from Boreas helped. The terrible god became angry and exclaimed:
- I deserved such humiliation myself! I forgot about my formidable, frantic strength! Is it right for me to humbly beg someone? I must act only by force! I drive thunderclouds across the sky, I raise waves on the sea like mountains, I uproot ancient oaks like dry blades of grass, I scourge the earth with hail and turn the water into ice as hard as stone - and I pray like a powerless mortal. When I rush in a frantic flight over the earth, the whole earth shakes and even the underground kingdom of Hades trembles. And I pray to Erechtheus as if I were his servant. I must not beg to give Orithia to me as a wife, but take her away by force!
Borey flapped his mighty wings. A storm raged throughout the land. The centuries-old forests shook like reeds, foam-covered shafts loomed menacingly across the sea, dark clouds covered the entire sky. Above the mountains stretched the dark cloak of Boreas, and the chilling cold of the north blew from it. Crushing everything in his path, Boreas rushed to Athens, grabbed Orithia, took off and flew with her to his north.
There Orithia became the wife of Boreas. She bore him two twin sons, Zeta and Kalaid. Both of them were winged, like their father. The sons of Boreas were great heroes; both of them took part in the Argonauts’ campaign for the Golden Fleece in Colchis and accomplished many great feats.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru