Re: 'dyeus'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> <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
>

Many thanks. With respect Vedic mythology had probably gone through centuries or more of revisions before the Rig Veda was set down by which time the concepts we take for granted were well established. Gods associated with rain and thunder are 'weather gods' like Anatolian 'Teshub', it does not follow that they are all 'sky father gods' they may be simply weather gods, sharing the sky association with many other deities.

Consider Dione, her name is the female equivalent of Dios (Zeus) whose cult usurped hers during the Bronze Age. For if Zeus is indeed a sky father then Dione by analogy must be a sky mother - they both share exactly that root 'shine'

Ric