Dyeus: The Indo-European Sky Father

[KHTimeProtecter]

Reminds me of how Zeus wasn’t the head deity in Mycenaean culture, but Poseidon was.

[kbee]

It's important to note that later vedic pantheon emphasized on Indra. Who exercised a similar role to Zeus in the Greek pantheon. Indra was the king of the devas (gods of the vedic pantheon) and resided in a realm akin to heaven, i.e. in the skies. Wielded a similar weapon on mass destruction to Zeus' lightning bolt, the vajrayuda. He was also known to go behind his wife's back and sire children all around. He also also is associated with storms, thunder, lightning, rain. Also seems to have assimilated other traits like fertility, war, etc.

He has similar character flaws to zeus in that he is also quick to anger, does covet other men's wives, not witty at times.

Indra himself is the offspring of dyaus who shares a lot of similarities with ouranos who is Zeus' grandfather. Ouranos like dyaus personifies the sky itself. Dyaus much like ouranos married earth (prithvi/gaea) and had children. The name ouranos itself has some etymological likeness to Varun who is the god of the seas in the vedic pantheon.

I think as these tribes moved apart, they moved around names/traits associated with those names. You see this with norse mythology too. Even though Odin is the all knowing divine Father figure, thor is the god of thunder.

[JuSan]

In some Hispanic countries "Dios padre" is a common alternative to "Dios mío" ("oh my God"), taken straight from the bible. Always intetesting to see where language, religion and cultures interact over time.

[KaiCyreus]

you mean to tell me all these people saying "sky daddy" are technically historically correct

[Cosmic_Chronicles_]

In my native langauge, a balt language ( baltic languages are considered to be one of the closest language groups to the indo european language) the word in Latvian is litterly Dievs, and I think in Lithuanian it is Dievas.

[sidetracker]

Its also important to note that from what we can tell, Zeus took control of the greek pantheon after the Greek Dark Ages, where as before it was Poseidon who was seen as the ruler of the Olympians

[shishirnepalEd]

Dyaeus Pitar
Means
Deva-Pitri ( God and Forefathers)
देव पितृ, like you mentioned in your early videos deva meant god of sky, like wise pitri means fore-father or father

[caliburn]

Dyaus Pitar, Djous Pitar, Ju Piter

Dyaus, Zeus, Deus, Dios

Hmmm interesting 🤔

[DeadInside-ctdl]

I recall a prayer, a larger prayer my mother and grandmother would chant (as a Hindu) Where Dhyaus is mentioned alomg with Chandra, the moon. So it might actually be one of Indra's names.

[KrishJr]

And that Sky Father god is Dyaus Pitr ( the father of Vedic God Indra ) and that proto indo European religion is Vedic Religion

[adammarktaylor]

Is there a full big video coming on PIE religion? 😅

[meekareth]

In Georgian, which is not an Indo-European language, there is a "Ma'ma Xe'tsi'er'i" which is basically a sky father, skyly father or something like that

[EyeLean]

I guess because he overthrew Uranus, who clearly was the personification of the sky, it would make sense that he'd take over that realm.

[Tata-psgy]

Both sky and father are very towering, powerful, and authoritative ideas. I would find it wierd if Dieus Pieter wasnt the supreme god, or even God

[lucasmed]

And in many modern languages the expression Heavenly Father and the sentence Sky Father are identical

[jessklay]

Why did I have to discover your channel so late at night?! I have work in the morning!!!😱 I could dork out on videos like this for HOURS

[flamephlegm]

A lot of stuff about PIE is pretty speculative. Fun but lighter weight academically

[jaykubisanidiot]

Dyonius was, apparently, once a Death God before he became the Reveler... IDK if that's true but the fact is, we don't really Know much at all about history once you factor in agendas from various sources... So maybe we all started religion by worshipping a funny looking rock and it evolved from there, idk but it sure is fun to imagine

[AurelienCarnoy]

When in doubylt go to the veda and remember who you are. ❤

[violenceislife]

Looking back we think we'll see gods that are now kings having always been kings but it may not be so. Also kings of gods in one region may be different figures than in other areas. In Greece Jupiter/Thor becomes king but in Germania Hermes/Wodin becomes king.