Boreas

The Greek north wind — carved on the Tower of the Winds in Athens, and carrying Oreithyia off on an Attic amphora

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The wind Boreas grabbed Kondráty’s beloved umbrella with that perfectly perfect, facsimile image of Tulubaika painted on it and ran away into the birchwood corridor of stripes white / black

The Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora, the Horologion of Andronikos of Kyrrhos, is an octagon: one face per wind, each wind carved over life-size in relief along the top, each face carrying a sundial below. Boreas has the north face.

The dating is disputed — somewhere between the late second century and the middle of the first century BC; Varro already mentions the building around 37 BC.

The wind god Boreas, Tower of the Winds, Athens

Marble relief of Boreas on the frieze of the Tower of the Winds in Athens: a bearded man in a heavy cloak and buskins, striding through the air and blowing a conch shell
Marble relief of Boreas on the frieze of the Tower of the Winds in Athens: a bearded man in a heavy cloak and buskins, striding through the air and blowing a conch shell

CC BY-SA 4.0 · George E. Koronaios · Wikimedia Commons · licence

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Boreas blows off my ushanka. Bastard!

Boreas carrying off Oreithyia

Attic red-figure pointed amphora, 470–460 BC: the bearded winged Boreas seizing Oreithyia and carrying her off, while her sister Herse at the left tries to hold her back
Attic red-figure pointed amphora, 470–460 BC: the bearded winged Boreas seizing Oreithyia and carrying her off, while her sister Herse at the left tries to hold her back

Public domain · Oreithyia Painter; photograph by Bibi Saint-Pol · Wikimedia Commons