Lightning

Zeus· King of Olympus God of Sky and Thunder

Zeus (Ancient Greek Zeus, Latin Iuppiter Jupiter) is the supreme god of Greek mythology — the decisive canon, the god of the sky, thunder, and lightning, the head of the 12 Olympian gods, and the decisive canonical iconographic figure as the youngest son of Kronos (Kronos) and Rhea (Rhea) who deposed his father and took the sovereignty of the universe. The etymology is the decisive canonical vocabulary derived from the Proto-Indo-European *dyeu- (light, sky), cognate with the Latin Iuppiter (*dyeu-pater 'sky father') and the Sanskrit Dyaus Pita. The decisive textual canon is the Mycenaean Linear B clay tablet inscriptions 'di-we (di-we, dative of Zeus)' and 'di-wo (di-wo, genitive of Zeus)' of the Bronze Age Mycenaean civilisation, and the Theogony (Theogony) lines 453-506 of Hesiod (Hesiod) of c. 8th-7th century BCE — the decisive canon in which Kronos swallowed his children but mother Rhea hid Zeus in Mount Ida (Ida) or the Dikte (Dikte) cave of Crete (Krete) and saved him — and lines 617-720 — the decisive canon of the 10-year Titanomachy (Titanomachia) — and lines 820-880 — the decisive canon of the duel with the giant monster Typhon (Typhon) — and lines 881-887 — the decisive canon of receiving the sky by lot — and Books 1.493-611, 8.5-27, and 14.292-353 of Homer's Iliad of c. 8th century BCE.

Thor · Norse God of Thunder — Protector of Mankind

Thor (Old Norse Thorr, Proto-Germanic Thunraz 'thunder') is the god of thunder, lightning, storms, strength, and fertility of Norse mythology — the decisive canon, the son of Odin (Odin) and the earth goddess Jord (Jord), married to Sif (Sif) — the decisive canonical iconographic figure. The etymology is the decisive canonical vocabulary derived from the Old Norse Thorr or Proto-Germanic Thunraz ('thunder'), cognate with the English Thursday (Old English Thunresdaeg, 'Thunor's day'), the German Donnerstag, and the Latin Tonans (epithet of Jupiter, 'thundering'). The decisive textual canon is chapter 9 of the Germania (Germania) of the c. 1st-century Roman historian Tacitus (Cornelius Tacitus, c. 56-120) — the decisive Roman-era canon of Donar (Donar, later Thor) identified by the Germanic tribes with Hercules (Hercules) — and the Prose Edda (Prose Edda) of c. 1220 of the early 13th-century Icelandic poet-historian Snorri Sturluson (Snorri Sturluson, 1179-1241) — chapters 21 (introduction), 25, 28 (Mjollnir), 42-48 (Utgarda-Loki, Skrymir episode), and 50 (Jormungandr fishing) of Gylfaginning (Gylfaginning) — the decisive canon — and the Voluspa (Voluspa), Thrymskvida (Thrymskvida), Hymiskvida (Hymiskvida), Harbardsljod (Harbardsljod), and Alvissmal (Alvissmal) of the Poetic Edda (Poetic Edda) of the c. 1270 Codex Regius (Codex Regius) manuscript are the decisive poetic canon. The decisive canonical iconography of the hammer Mjollnir (Mjollnir) — a weapon that returns when thrown — and the chariot drawn by two goats Tanngnjostr (Tanngnjostr) and Tanngrisnir (Tanngrisnir).

Indra · God of Thunder — Supreme Deity of Hindu Mythology

Indra (Sanskrit Indra) is the supreme deity of Indian Vedic mythology — the decisive canon — and god of thunder, lightning, war, and rain — derived from the Sanskrit 'indra' meaning 'strong, ruler' — the decisive canonical iconographic figure of the most praised deity of the Vedic era (c. 1500-500 BCE). Aliases — Shakra ('mighty one'), Vajrapani ('bearer of vajra'), Purandara ('destroyer of fortresses'), Meghavahana ('rider of clouds'), Devaraja ('king of the gods'), Sakra Devanam Indra (Buddhist Indra) — are the decisive canonical vocabulary. The decisive textual canon is the decisive origin canon of the Rigveda (Rigveda) of c. 1500-1200 BCE in which about 250 of the 1028 hymns are dedicated to him — the most of any deity. The decisive mythological canon is the decisive origin canon of Rigveda 1.32 in which Indra slew the drought demon Vritra (Vritra) with the vajra (vajra, thunder weapon) and released the blocked waters, bringing rain to humanity.

Thunder Bird of Native American Mythology

The Thunderbird (English Thunderbird, Algonquian/Ojibwe Animikii, Lakota Wakinyan) is the canonical iconographic figure of the giant bird-form spiritual being — resembling an eagle or condor — that widely appears in Native American mythology, in which the flapping of its wings creates thunder and its eyes shoot lightning — the decisive canon. The etymology is the English Thunderbird ('bird of thunder'), settled as the decisive canonical vocabulary by 1830s American naturalists and folklorists translating the Algonquian/Ojibwe Animikii ('thunderer') and Lakota Wakinyan ('flying sacred') into English. The decisive tribal traditions are (1) the Algonquian/Ojibwe — the decisive Thunderbird canon of the Lake Michigan and Great Lakes region; (2) the Lakota — the decisive Wakinyan canon of the Dakota and Black Hills region; and (3) the Pacific Northwest Coast tribes Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw — the totem-pole-top canon of the coast of British Columbia, Canada. The decisive textual record is the journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Lewis and Clark Expedition) of 1804-1806 — recording the Thunderbird belief of the Indigenous people along the Columbia River — and the decisive English scholarly canonisation of the Ojibwe Animikii canon in the Algic Researches (2 volumes) of the American folklorist Henry Schoolcraft (Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1793-1864) of 1849, and the epic The Song of Hiawatha (22 cantos) of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) published in the USA on 10 November 1855 is the decisive 19th-century American-literary Thunderbird canon.

Lightning Lord of the Desert

The Blue Dragon is one of the five chromatic (evil) dragons in Dungeons & Dragons, introduced in the 1974 original boxed set by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and locked to Lawful Evil alignment from the 1977 AD&D Monster Manual onward. It is recognised by its azure scales and the single massive horn rising from its snout, and it exhales a 60-foot line of lightning rated at 12d10 damage in the 2014 fifth-edition Monster Manual. Among the chromatic dragons it is the most territorial and methodical, ruling desert tribes and nomadic peoples through hallucinations, mirages and divine impersonation in canon supplements from AD&D through fifth edition. The same creature appears in Mike Carr's 'In Search of the Unknown' (1979), the Dragonlance Chronicles by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis, and the desert encounters of Baldur's Gate 3 (2023) with consistent silhouette and lore.