Re: 'dyeus'

W dniu 2010-07-06 18:09, megalith6 pisze:

> I wonder when this concept of the 'sky father' arose - it is nowhere
> documented. Jupiter is just 'Zeus-pater' and relates to the planet
> Jupiter not to the sky as such, unless the sense is 'night sky father'?
>
> Comments please - I posted earlier but that seems to have disappeared?

<dyaus. pita:> 'Father Sky' is well documented in the Rigveda, alongside
'Mother Earth'. Lat iuppiter/iu:piter comes from the vocative *djeu
p&2ter!, which must have been a fixed collocation in PIE. The
association with the planet Jupiter is secondary, formed under the
influence of Middle Eastern astronomy. Iuppiter was the sender of rains
and the thrower of thunderbolts, and <sub Iove> meant 'out in the open
air' (= under the sky) in Latin.

Piotr