Ie Sky Father

myth:ie_sky_father

The Sky-Father — the chief god of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, the bright day-sky personified, whose name *Dyeus ph2ter ('Sky-Father') is the literal source of Greek Zeus, Roman Jupiter (Dyeus-piter), and Vedic Dyaus Pita, and lies behind the Norse Tyr. The same root gives Latin deus and the word 'day'. The single deepest junction of Indo-European myth. — comparative mythology