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Given that Western civilization worshiped Jupiter as top god for a thousand years, you would be in good company historically [1] to have have a Jupiter apprecia
by drhagen 5y ago
Given that Western civilization worshiped Jupiter as top god for a thousand years, you would be in good company historically [1] to have have a Jupiter appreciation day.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)#Religious_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)#Religious_...
- osrec 5y agoSo do many Eastern civilisations...
- ohnohell 5y agoOk...
- iKevinShah 5y agoIn India, Jupiter is called as "guru" (Sanskrit:बृहस्पति). बृहस्पति roughly translates to "guru" of the gods.
- geoffjentry 5y agoInteresting. Is there any connection in Sanskrit for that word to Dyaus [1], as that deity was an equivalent of Zeus/Jupiter [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyaus
- globular-toast 5y agoNot because they understood the gravity thing, though. I've always thought civilisations that worship the Sun have the right idea.
- sillyquiet 5y agoJupiter, along with Zeus, Tyr, and a whole host of others are cognate with the Proto-Indo-European *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr, literally 'sky father'.
- sillyquiet 5y agoThe sky father was the chief god of the steppe people that lived north of the Black and Caspian Seas during the Neolithic into the Bronze Age, so 'Jupiter' as such was worshiped for 2000 years before the Greek speakers called him that. As these people (according to all the currently most accepted archaeological and linguistic evidence) are the ancestral culture of most of Europe, Iran, and India (with the exception of the native Dravidians), it makes sense the Greeks as well as most of the religions of Europe and southwest Asia also worshipped him.
- ducktective 5y agoI think by steppe people, you are referring to Indo-Europeans (Aryans). There is also a sky-god in Tengrism (Mongols, Turks). But are either of those actually referring to the planet Jupiter?
- sillyquiet 5y agoNah, the naming of the planet came much later, I don't think the planet itself was ever worshipped. And the Proto-Indo-Europeans are not the Aryans - the Aryans were a much later daughter culture in Western Afghanistan, Northern Iran and India, and probably the folks that had the beliefs outlined in the first pages of the Rig Veda. The steppe people I am referring to are the people of the Yamnaya culture and related peoples within their horizon. The Mongols and Turks were relative late comers to the western steppes.
- throwaway894345 5y agoPretty sure "Aryans" is a 19th and 20th century term used for the Indo-Europeans (or roughly approximating "Indo-Europeans"), hence the association of "Aryan" and 20th century race ideology (e.g., theories of an "Aryan homeland" was in Germany, that the Germans were a pure Aryan race, etc).
- sillyquiet 5y agoThe racialists of the late 19th Century and early 20th co-opted the term, but there was a real peoples that really called themselves 'Aryans'. They weren't blue eyed blonde-haired, that's for sure, and the weren't at the root of Europe either. Like I said, they were a central Asian daughter culture. They probably spoke Indo-Iranian and their beliefs were later written down in the Riga Veda as well as being a component of Iranian Zoroastrianism. ('Aryan' is cognate with the proto-Indo-European 'h₂éyos')
- MonkeyClub 5y agoIsn't that Thursday every week?