dyaupitar

From: Ash
Message: 13866
Date: 2002-06-17

dyau-pitar is the Sanskrit counterpart of the European Juppiter and Zeus. All the three words are cognates. Dyaus in Sanskrit (or IE) means sky, and pitar is father.
dyau-pitar = zeus (djeus) = jup-piter all referred to the "sky-god" of the Indo-Europeans.

Can some one list out all the other Gods common to the Vedic and Graeco-Roman pantheons. Apart from the obvious mitra of course.

Ash

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Message: 6
From: "dvjx1" <david.james29@...>

Wasn't there an Indian god 'Dyashpitar' or something
similar?
I assume this god is somehow connected with Jupiter and Zeus.

David James