Re: 'dyeus'

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

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> You do realize that you are just complicating the matter?
> The standard example of what not to do in linguistics given to aspiring linguists is the attempt to connect the *deyw- of Latin deus with the *dhew- of Greek theos. Your pointing out that the latter as well as the former besides the sense "god" also has the sense "day(light)" increases the evidence for both words being a single loan from some other language family.
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> Torsten

- for 'theos' Wikipedia gives something like "PIE, *dhues-, 'smoke, spirit'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_(word)#Translations


but what also interests me is Theia's connection with sight - the sun is often imagined as a great eye in the sky, I should imagine Theia was originally a solar deity

> "THEIA was the Titan goddess of sight (thea) and shining light of
> the clear blue sky (aithre)"
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http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanisTheia.html