The Seba library treats Whirlwind in 4 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, von Franz, Marie-Louise, Zimmer, Heinrich).
the ‘mystery of the whirlwind in the manner of a wheel’ … Compare Zach. 9: 14 (D. V.): ‘… and the Lord God will sound the trumpet and go in the whirlwind of the south.’
Jung identifies the whirlwind as both an alchemical symbol of the circulating arcane substance and a biblical theophany, connecting Komarios’s rotatory mystery to the divine epiphany in Zechariah.
, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944thesis
night with her dark wings gave birth to a wind egg. From it sprang in the course of time the God Eros … He was similar to a whirlwind. This is a very complex picture, in which there are the motifs of desire and the whirlwind, of the wind moving in a circle.
Von Franz interprets the Orphic Eros-as-whirlwind as a primordial cosmogonic image uniting desire, circular motion, and the birth of divinity from pre-cosmic darkness.
, Creation Myths, 1995thesis
Like desiccated leaves the sear substance of the universe leaps to the cyclone. Friction ignites the whirling tumult of highly inflammable matter; the god has turned into fire.
Zimmer presents the cosmic whirlwind as the apocalyptic agent of Hindu dissolution, in which Vishnu-as-wind draws all matter into a self-igniting vortex that annihilates existence.
, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, 1946supporting
few can ride the whirlwind of unbridled emotions with great skill.
Panksepp employs the whirlwind as a neuroscientific metaphor for the overwhelming upward surge of subcortical emotional circuits that overpowers cortical top-down control under stress.
, Affective Neuroscience The Foundations of Human and Animal, 1998supporting