Re: 'dyeus'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "megalith6" <megalith6@...> wrote:

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> Thanks Hans-Werner,
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> Marduk leads nowhere accepted.
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> With regard to PIE 'dyeus pater' what has happened to 'dyeus mater' please? Juno does not appear to be the 'Earth Mother'. The only gender correct form I have here for a dyeus counterpart is 'Dione' [Juno], I don't know what her reconstructed PIE would be. For that we need the neutral adjective 'bright', I haven't seen that yet.
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> For Dione also read Diana but the moon attribution is fraught (below)
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> Looks to me as if Juno's root is exactly the same as 'dyeus' - her name 'Lucina' makes that abundantly clear I think.

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Here we are, 'Theia', it was here all along, 'the shining light of the sky', exactly the reading so beloved of Indo-Europeanists for 'dyeus'. Men never did have a monopoly over the sky it seems, or light, or even the sun.

Maybe time to update those lexicons.

"THEIA was the Titan goddess of sight (thea) and shining light of the clear blue sky (aithre)"

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisTheia.html

Ric