Weather goddesses?

I'd really like to look into this for you, but I need to get ready for a class. I do know of one, an Inuit goddess called Asiaq, but from my memory, most weather deities are male.

Two sites I've used often (I work a lot with Greek mythology) are pantheon.org and godchecker.com. They both seem to be reliable, though some of the entries in the former were written by children as what I would guess to be a homework assignment...

Hope it helps, though!

Thank you. :)

I'm not finding much information about Asiaq. As I said earlier, I'm finding the Yoruba goddess Oya very promising, however.

In South Africa we have the Mojaji or The Rain Queen. She is (well was, we haven't had one for many years now) a real woman but is considered deified. Wikipedia has some good stuff on her.

I'm not sure if this is what your going for, but in ancient Greek mythology, Demeter, the goddess of grain, the earth and growing things etc., changes the seasons with her moods because her daughter was kidnapped by Hades (that's the short version 0_o) so you could do some variation on that...?

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Tefnut, Egyptian Goddess of rain

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Thanks for all of the suggestions!

Unfortunately, the Modjadji doesn't work because I need a longstanding mythological deity rather than a position. ;Þ
Demeter doesn't work, because the weather changing needs to be a bit more rapid. Tefnut seems interesting; I may look into that, although I do prefer the weather powers to be a bit more broad than precipitation.

Not sure this helps, but apparently there's a Chinese Goddess of frost and snow.

Your best bet is probably Asiaq. Most of the "weather" type Gods/Goddess are more just a certain type of weather.

The Finnish God Ukko is another option. He's weather, crops, they line of things.

Can you give me a quick idea of what you need it for? Or rather what they need to do. I might be able to narrow it down from there, but like someone said most of them are male. If it's just change the weather most of the creation gods can do that to some extent (ie: Zeus, Thor, et al.).

If you don't mind sorting through it try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sky_and_weather_gods

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There are lots of incidences in Greek mythology of various Goddesses effecting the weather either in favour of or against particular mortals they favoured or had a grudge against but they aren't specifically weather Goddesses.

Two Greek goddesses and two Egyptian goddesses:

Aphrodite, Artemis.

Nut, Tefnut.

Remember in the Illiad, Aphrodite covers Alexandros (Paris) with a mist, to save him from a defeat.

Artemis (Diana) could alter the weather at will. In the story IPHIGENIA AT AULIS, Artemis punishes Agamemnon for sacrilege by stilling the winds, so the Greek fleet could not sail to Troy, unless he sacrficed his own daughter (Iphigenia). When the sacrifice is made, the winds rise.

Any decent goddess can change the weather.

In Egyptian myth, you might want to look at NUT. (Noot). She was a primieval goddess who was identified with the sky. (In Greek myth, the earth was female, and sky was male; in Egypt the reverse was true: The male Geb was the earth; and the female Nut was the sky. She is identified with the sky, the firmament, and her voice is the thunder.

http://www.crystalinks.com/nut.html

Also consider her mother, TEFNUT, who was the rain goddess of the early Egyptians.

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