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Definition of Lightning hurler
1. Noun. An epithet for Jupiter.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightning Hurler
Literary usage of Lightning hurler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1898)
"... though the humanized rainbow generally spanned the sky above, and the lightning
hurler was below. They are bird men, but are attended by animal gods. ..."
2. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann by Gerhart Hauptmann (1917)
"Lightning-hurler! Realm-disperser! Heaven-whirler! [The upper stage is disclosed,
revealing NAPOLEON enthroned as ZEUS, the eagle at his feet. ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"This is a Vedic prayer: ' What, Indra, has not yet been given me by thee,
Lightning-hurler, all good things bring us hither with both hands . . . with ..."
4. Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Viktor Rydberg, Rasmus Björn Anderson, James William Buel, Norrœna Society (1907)
"... their riders to the lightning- conflict in space against the lightning-hurler,
Thor. The thunder-storm was frequently a vig ..."
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