Gebeleizis the Sky-Thunderer

Getic sky/thunder god. Native term given in Greek script as Herodotus is the sole transmitting source; manuscript variants include Beleizis and Nebeleizis. Some scholars (Russu) keep him distinct from Zalmoxis as a uranian counterpart to the chthonic immortality god; others equate them per Herodotus' own phrasing. Equally a Dacian/Getic god; foregrounded for the Dacian set per the prompt.

Domains

• sky and heavens
• thunder and lightning

Powers

• casts down thunder and lightning

Sources

• Herodotus, Histories 4.94
• I. I. Russu, Religia geto-dacilor (1947)
• Mircea Eliade, Zalmoxis: The Vanishing God (1972)