Chione (daughter of Boreas)

Chione (Greek Χιόνη "Snow White " ) in Greek mythology, the daughter Oreithyia and Boreas, the North Wind embodied in God. Her siblings were the twin brothers KALAIS and Zetes and Cleopatra. From the union with Poseidon comes from the son of Eumolpus, the Chione, secretly born, thrown into the sea, but the boy is rescued by Poseidon.

Claudius Aelianus mentioned in his animal stories of three brothers riesenhaftem growth, sons of Boreas and Chione, who served as a priest of Apollo in the fabled North Country Hyperborea. As the size of which he gives 10 to Ellen, which corresponds to at least 270 cm.

Chione is either viewed as a nymph or minor goddess of gentle breezes and snow.