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    form *Dyēus Ph2ter ("Father Dyēus") were inherited in the following liturgic and poetic traditions: PIE: *dyēus ph2tḗr, 'Father Sky' (voc. *dyeu ph2ter...
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    all of which are reflexes of the same Proto-Indo-European deity's name, *Dyēus Ph₂tḗr. While there are numerous parallels adduced from outside of Indo-European...
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  • a sign Chinese characters, known as zi (字) Thracian word derived from *Dyēus Zi (surname) (子), a surname used by Shang kings Zi (title) (子), a Chinese...
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    Proto-Indo-Iranian *dyā́wš, from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) daylight-sky god *Dyēus, and is cognate with the Greek Διας – Zeus Patēr, Illyrian Dei-pátrous,...
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  • Dyēus, the daylight sky and seat of the never-dying and heavenly gods, in a relationship of contrast and union, since the fructifying rains of Dyēus might...
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  • continuator of *Dyēus as a result of the Zoroastrianist reform. An argument for such an etymology is that Diana is also etymologically derived from *Dyēus. Anikin...
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    "Daughter of Dyēus" is attested as an epithet attached to a dawn-goddess in several poetic traditions: PIE: *diwós dhuǵhatḗr, "Daughter of Dyēus", Vedic:...
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  • godlike"), Greek Zeus, Lithuanian Dievas and the name for the sky god *Dyēus present throughout Indo-European religions and cultures. After the Yugoslav...
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    name comes from the Proto-Indo-European vocative compound *Dyēu-pəter (nominative: *Dyēus-pətēr, meaning "Father Sky-God", or "Father Day-God"). As the...
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  • Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, "celestial" or "shining", from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon. In Classical...
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    Rome. Crom (fictional deity) Demeter Dievas Dis (Divine Comedy) Dyaus Pita Dyēus God the Father Hades Tiwaz Zeus de Vaan 2008, pp. 173–174. Kurt Latte, Römische...
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  • *ģʰeib- "light, lightning"; zis is a reflex of the PIE day-light-sky god *Dyēus, the same as Messapic Zis (congate and equivalent of the Greek Zeus). The...
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    Greek Zeus†-Ouranos †has more elements of Dyēus Hindu Mitra-Varuna Norse Tyr†-Odin †name derived from Dyēus Roman Scaevola-Cocles, Janus? Irish Nuada-Lugh...
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    example of a religious notion from this shared past is the concept of *dyēus, which is attested in several distinct religious systems.[citation needed]...
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  • original epithet of Dyēus, the Sky-God. It has also been postulated that Perkwunos was referred to as *Diwós Putlós ('son of Dyēus'), although this is...
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  • is a direct successor of the Proto-Indo-European supreme sky father god *Dyēus of the root *deiwo-. Its Proto-Baltic form was *Deivas. Dievas had two sons...
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    'sons or descendants of Dyēus', the sky-god. (?) PIE: *diwós suHnū́ ('sons of Dyēus'), or *diwós népoth1e ('descendants of Dyēus'), Vedic: the Divó nápātā...
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    reflex of *Dyeus, could be considered god of the day-lit sky Aurora (mythology), goddess of the dawn Jupiter (mythology), as a reflex of *Dyeus, god of the...
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  • (Δειπάτυροϛ θεὸϛ παρὰ Στυμϕαίοιϛ). Deipaturos was worshipped as the Sky Father (*Dyēus-Ph₂tḗr), a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr...
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    of daylight sky itself, possibly a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *Dyēus Ph2ter, while Svarozhits and solar Dazhbog were the same deity, though,...
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    epic tradition, Athena figures as a daughter of Zeus (Διός θυγάτηρ; cfr. Dyeus). However, the inscription quoted seems to be very similar to "a-ta-nū-tī...
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    Vedic god Dyaus is a variant of the Proto-Indo-European god *Dyēus ph2ter (or simply *Dyēus), from which also derive the Greek Zeus and the Roman Jupiter...
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    of the supreme power like Zeus and Jupiter. Due to his celestial nature, Dyēus is often described as "all-seeing", or "with wide vision" in Indo-European...
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    ultimately the Indo-European vocative compound *Dyēu-pəter (meaning "O Father Sky-god"; nominative: *Dyēus-pətēr). Older forms of the deity's name in Rome...
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    Lithuanian: deivas, Latin: deus 'a god, deity'), itself a derivation from *dyēus, meaning 'diurnal sky', hence 'daylight-sky god' (cf. Sanskrit: Dyáuṣ, Ancient...
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    translation of the New Testament by Ulfilas. For the etymology of deus, see *dyēus. Greek "θεός " (theos) means god in English. It is often connected with...
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    Zeus, indicating an origin in the reconstructed Indo-European sky deity *Dyēus. He is thus the only attested Germanic god who was already important in...
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    Iuppiter, deriving from the Proto-Indo-European vocative *dyeu-ph2tēr), deriving from the root *dyeu- ("to shine", and in its many derivatives, "sky, heaven...
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    religion, the sky was deified as the goddess Nut and as the god Horus. Dyeus is reconstructed as the god of the sky, or the sky personified, in Proto-Indo-European...
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    "Air" god, also called Anila ("wind"), Dyauṣ the "Sky" god, also called Dyeus and Prabhāsa or the "shining dawn", also called akasha or sky, Pṛthivī the...
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