Gebeleizis is the only Dacian-Getic divine name besides Zalmoxis transmitted securely in an ancient source. Herodotus (Histories 4.94) writes that the Getae 'believe they do not die, but that the one who perishes goes to the god Zalmoxis, whom some of them call Gebeleizis', and that they shoot arrows into the sky against thunder and lightning. Ancient testimony thus records an explicit equation of the two names, yet many modern interpreters — notably Mircea Eliade — argue that Gebeleizis was originally a distinct celestial storm-and-lightning god whose cult was later absorbed by or conflated with that of Zalmoxis. The name is generally analysed as containing the Indo-European sky-god element *dyēus, and Romanian scholarship has traced possible survivals of the storm-god's functions in the folk figure of Saint Elijah (Sfântul Ilie). Manuscript variants include Beleizis and Nebeleizis. Because the equation with Zalmoxis rests on Herodotus alone, the figure is documented here as a separate deity with the equation carefully noted rather than silently merged.