Dyaus pita
Dyaus Pita ( Sanskrit द्यौष् पिता dyauṣ pitā ) is in the Vedic religion the heavenly and father god, consort of the Prithivi Mata and father of Agni , Indra , Surya and Ushas . Its symbolic animal is the bull.
Its roots go back to the proto- Indo-Germanic sky god * deiwos , and are reflected in the Greek Zeus ( ancient Greek Ζεύς , accusative Δία Día , genitive Διός Diós ), the Roman Jupiter (from the Latin. Jovius pater ) and Tyr the Nordic mythology resist .
Connections to the Germanic god "Ziu" ( Tyr ) and to Zeus and Jupiter are not only evident for the Sanskrit researcher Friedrich Max Müller . In the Rigveda Dyaus Pita is mentioned in the hymns 1.89 de sa , 1.90 de sa , 1.164 de sa and 4.1 de sa in simple invocations.
In RV 1,89,4 de sa appears Pita Dyaus "Father Sky" alongside Matar Prithvi "Mother Earth".
The Rigveda provides only a few clues, but Indra seems to have killed his father. In art, the Dyaus Pita is represented in two ways: as a red bull that roars like thunder, or as a black horse, adorned with pearls that represent the stars in space.
literature
- Thomas Oberlies, The Religion of Rgveda , Vienna 1998.
- Gerhard J. Bellinger, Knaurs Lexikon der Mythologie , Knaur, Munich 1999, Dyaus