Dyaus Pita
Sign in to saveDyaus (Vedic Sanskrit: द्यौस्, ) or Dyauspitr (Vedic Sanskrit: द्यौष्पितृ, ) is the Rigvedic sky deity. His consort is Prithvi, the earth goddess, and together they are the archetypal parents in the Rigveda.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Hindu
- Deity.devanagari
- द्यौस्
- Deity.symbol
- Bull
- Deity.affiliation
- Deva, Pancha Bhuta
- Deity.abode
- Dyuloka, Sky (, )
- Deity.member_of
- Thirty-three gods
- Deity.other_names
- Akasha
- Deity.deity_of
- Personification of the Sky
- Deity.consort
- Prithvi
- Deity.offspring
- Indra, Surya, Ushas, and the other gods
- Deity.texts
- Rigveda
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Ouranos (Functional equivalent)Zeus (mainly etymological)
- Deity.Roman_equivalent
- Caelus (Functional equivalent) Jupiter (mainly etymological)
- Deity.Norse_equivalent
- Odin (as the Father of the gods) Tyr (mainly etymological)
- Deity.Indo european_equivalent
- Dyēus
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Dyaus (Vedic Sanskrit: द्यौस्, ) or Dyauspitr (Vedic Sanskrit: द्यौष्पितृ, ) is the Rigvedic sky deity. His consort is Prithvi, the earth goddess, and together they are the archetypal parents in the Rigveda.
== Etymology == stems from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dyā́wš, from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) daylight-sky god , and is cognate with the Greek – Zeus Patēr, or Dei-pátrous, and Latin Jupiter (from Old Latin Dies piter ), stemming from the PIE ("Daylight-sky Father").''''
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