Dyaus Pita

This corpus holds `greek_hesiod_zeus` and `roman_iuppiter`, and it did not hold the third member of that set — the one whose name is closest to the reconstructed original and which is the reason the other two are known to be related. NO cross-tradition edge is drawn, on the rule this programme has applied in every lane: a shared etymology is a fact about traditions and not a relation between beings. It is, though, the single most consequential such fact in comparative mythology, and a registry indexing 560 traditions ought at least to hold all three ends of it. Now it does.

Domains

• sky

Relations

• paired with: PrithviNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Prithvi record. The two are invoked as a compound in the Rigveda — Dyavaprithivi, sky-and-earth as one word — and holding one without the other was the corpus's position until now.Reference treatment of Dyaus Pita as the deified sky, standing against the earth in the Rigvedic pair Dyavaprithivi. (secondary)

Sources

• Dyaus Pita is the Vedic deified sky, the sky father, paired with the earth.: Reference treatment of Dyaus Pita among the Rigvedic deities. (secondary)