Westies in the Wind

For many centuries, weather vanes, have decorated the tops of buildings in many places all over the world.

The weather vane honors the ancient documented Greek god Triton, which adorned the Tower of Winds in Athens. It was built by the astronomer Andronicus in 48 BC. This figure, believed to have been 5 to 7 feet had the head and torso of a man and the tail of a fish. In Greece and pre-Christian Rome, these weather vanes alluded to other mythic gods such as Boreas, Aeolus, Hermes and Mercury, and were used to decorate the villas of rich landowners.

In the nineteenth century, the King of Scotland decreed the mandate that every house in Glasgow should exhibit a Westie on the roof as a reminder of the all adagio which went "the Westie shall not bark, the morning after Sunday nor he shall roll on the mud more than three times"

Given this history, "Westie weather vanes" have crowned the roofs of countless houses for more than one century, both in Scotland and America.