I think if we can reference Homer we can safely set “Wind = Horses” to be an understood reference by the time of the Odyssey. Now it’s likely Homer was including more modern interpretations of the gods, which might put this reference at the 800BC mark. However, Homer was continuing on an oral tradition, so it’s possibly even older. Scholars consider the Illiad to be a Greek interpretation of the Bronze Age collapse. That potentially dates it back further to 1050 or 1200 BC. And that’s just the Greeks!

In short, horses have been associated with wind for anywhere between 2800 and 3200 years. Making the original argument extra silly.


Also, I really strongly recommend everyone at some point in their life go and read at least a bit of the Illiad, and remember that Homer by all traditions was completely blind. The descriptions are stunning, and it’s a deeply cool bit of ancient literature.