Ancient Greece
How are the clouds described as?
Beautiful and transparent
Who brought the rain?
elephants
Where did the Skidi Pawnee tribe live?
Nebraska
How were the young nymphs called?
Nephelai
The clouds were the celestial relatives of what animal?
white elephants
Who wore the clouds as clothing?
The gods of heaven
What were the names of the daughters of two titans?
Oceanus and Tethys
What would the elephants use to shower the earth with rain?
Their trunks
What did Native Americans also create?
Myths and folkore
How did Oceanus and Tethys spend their days?
spent their days collecting water from the rivers in cloudy pitchers
What was the elephant's body thought to represent?
a cloud
What causes the clouds to stretch across the entire sky?
A god spreading its arms
billowing white robes
Where did the white elephants roam?
the earth
What did the early Navalo people believe in?
That clouds were formed when a great white swan flapped its wings