Dyaus

Nature, they afterwards fashioned other Gods, this name of Dyaus became _Dyaus pitar_, the Heaven-Father, or Lord of All; and in far later times, when the western Aryans had found their home in

Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland John Thackray Bunce 1863

The idea which had first been expressed by the pronoun or the termination of the third person, He thunders, was taken up into the word Dyaus, or sky.

Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861

The word Dyaus, which at first meant bright, had lost its radical meaning, and now meant simply sky.

Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861

The thunder came from the sky, the sky was frequently called Dyaus (the bright one), in Greek Ζεὑς; and though it was not the bright sky which thundered, but the dark, yet Dyaus had already ceased to be an expressive predicate, it had become a traditional name, and hence there was nothing to prevent an Aryan man from saying Dyaus, or the sky thunders, in Greek Ζεὑς βρουτᾶ.

Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion 1861

'two mothers,' but when independently used the word Dyaus is male or female indifferently.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

But like other High Gods, Dyaus was so remote that he was eventually replaced by more accessible gods, who were wholly identified with natural and cosmic forces.

Excerpt: The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong 2006

The miners are a connection to her mate Dis-Pater/Dyaus Pitar/Jupiter - see posts below.

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At a very early stage, they had worshiped a Sky God called Dyaus

Excerpt: The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong 2006

Other gods are said to do the same things as part of their regular duties: Parjanya, Mitra and Varuṇa, Dyaus, dispense the rain, others the light.

Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India Lionel D. Barnett

So some of them, as the Ṛig-vēda proves, declared that Dyaus was the father of Indra, and others appear to have given this honour to Tvashṭā, while others regarded Tvashṭā as

Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India Lionel D. Barnett