Proto-Indo-European Gods Explained

[treedriller]

In lithuanian, "God" translates to "Dievas" and the "sky" - "Dangus"

[davidegaruti]

A really intresting fact i remember about proto indo european :
The specialists didn't reconstruct words for metals since in the many languages they are different roots ...

Hinting that they probably didn't have blacksmithing ...

[Twilord_]

Imagine being the forgotten sleeping God who gets re-awakened by a YouTuber making knowledge of you prominent again...

[artsempai]

Perhaps the concept of the sky being a deity is a shared concept among the great steppe nomads. In many modern Turkic and Mongolic languages the word Tengri (or Tanri) means God, but also it also used to mean blue sky

[arsen]

Can we have a dedicated video on this topic introduced with all (atleast the ones recognised/discovered) gods from the proto indo European religion.

[devilopment]

in Java-Indonesia they called God by "Dewa" or "Dewo" it's directly came from Sanskrit "Deva"
as for Goddess, they called "Dewi" from Sanskrit "Devi"

[violaseveri]

Yep, they also track existing living languages like Lithuanian, my mother tongue. God is "Dievas" and sky is "dangus", they share a very similar origin or sound as some might call it. Same with fire being "ugnis" which is almost identical to other ancient languages, in this case sanskrit.

[westrim]

You could say it was the PIE in-the-sky god.

[thomaswillard]

Just to be clear, 'Dei' is unrelated to 'Day' which descends from a word for burning

[whatgamesweplay]

suddenly the gods' names in the fantasy book "The redemption of Althalus" make much more sense

[SK-zisr]

We also have the word deity in English meaning god of sky

[silasfrisenette]

Crossover between an interest (science of religion) and my academic field (Indo-European studies/historical linguistics with an extended specialization in Indo-European) 🤭 Of course this is nothing new to me, but awesome to see it covered 😃

[thorn.charmer]

This might also explain why early western (specifically Greek) philosophy so closely linked light, daytime and fire with moral goodness. In fact I wonder which association came first, light being associated with god or light being associated with good.

[ChrischiTutorialLPs]

Fun fact: Time and Demon both share a common root word in PIE.

[tunahan]

This is pretty interesting cause its the same in the turcomongol religion tengrism. The god was called goktengri mening skygod and there many connections with the sky and god (or potentially the colour blue since they're the same word)

[davidconstine]

some scholars? I think any legitimate linguist contends that all Indo-European leagues descend from PIE. that is established fact.

[MK-lhxd]

So sky daddy is an accurate translation

[JosephRewa]

on the same lines, I've always thought it interesting, that the Germanic days of the week are based on the Norse gods, and the Latin days of the week are based on the roman gods, and each day matches up with the different gods in each system. germanic: friday=freya latin: viernes=venus. which emplies some sort of cerrelatio between the religions, although I'm no etymological scientist, so I could be wrong

[dhirendrasingh]

Fun fact :- Hinduism is the only surviving Indo- European religion which dates back more than 5000 years 😮

[graphite]

Interesting. "대" (dae) is the Korean word for Great/big. Daewoo, the company, is a Korean portmanteau for Great Universe.