Everything about Dyaus Pita totally explained
In the
Vedic religion is the
Sky Father, husband of
Prithvi and father of
Agni and
Indra (
RV 4.17.4).
His origins can be traced to the
Proto-Indo-European sky god
*Dyeus, who appears in
Greek as
Zeus patēr (
accusative Día,
genitive Diòs), in Latin as
Jupiter (from archaic Latin
Iovis pater, "Sky father"), in
Slavic mythology as
Div, and Germanic and
Norse mythology as
Tyr or Ziu.
In the
Rig Veda, Dyaus Pitar appears in hymns 1.89, 1.90, 1.164, 1.191 and 4.1 in simple invocations.
In RV 1.89.4b,
Pitar Dyaus "Father Sky" appears alongside
Mata Prithvi "Mother Earth".
Details of the myth are sketchy, but Indra seems to have killed his father (RV 4.18.12). Thomas Oberlies tentatively identifies Dyaus with an Asura in pre-vedic religion (both appear to have been killed by Indra).
In art, he appears in two different forms: as a red
bull who bellows thunder, or as a black
horse adorned with pearls, symbolizing the stars.
Literature
- Thomas Oberlies, Die Religion des Rgveda, Wien 1998.
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