Kaikias was the Greek god of the northeast wind who was depicted on the frieze of the Tower of the Winds at Athens as an old, bearded man carrying a shield full of hail-stones. Considered a dark, violent and frenzied wind, his name is cognate to the Latin caecus which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *káykos “one-eyed.”
My, that sounds familiar.
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