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Subject: B4) What is the origin of the
word "hurricane"?
Contributed by Chris Landsea
"HURRICANE derived from 'Hurican', the Carib god of evil...
alternative spellings: foracan, foracane, furacana,
furacane, furicane,furicano, haracana, harauncana, haraucane,
haroucana, harrycain, hauracane, haurachana, herican, hericane,
hericano, herocane, herricao, herycano, heuricane, hiracano,
hirecano, hurac[s]n, huracano, hurican, hurleblast, hurlecan,
hurlecano, hurlicano, hurrican, hurricano, hyrracano, urycan,
hyrricano, jimmycane, oraucan, uracan, uracano"
From the AMS Glossary of Meteorology
It should be noted that the Carib god 'Hurican' was derived from the
Mayan god 'Hurakan', one of their creator gods, who blew his breath
across the Chaotic water and brought forth dry land and later destroyed
the men of wood with a great storm and flood .
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