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> Dyaus-pitar and Jupiter, Zeus-pater This one is slightly more interesting than a mere cognate as it is believed that the Proto-Indo-European speakers worship
by richardfontana 2y ago
> Dyaus-pitar and Jupiter, Zeus-pater
This one is slightly more interesting than a mere cognate as it is believed that the Proto-Indo-European speakers worshipped a sky god with the reconstructed name *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr ("sky-father") which is the ancestor of these (also Tyr and the like on the Germanic side). See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Dy%C4%93us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Dy%C4%93us
"*Dyēus is considered by scholars the most securely reconstructed deity of the Indo-European pantheon, as identical formulas referring to him can be found among the subsequent Indo-European languages and myths of the Vedic Indo-Aryans, Latins, Greeks, Phrygians, Messapians, Thracians, Illyrians, Albanians and Hittites."
- philwelch 2y agoWhat I find interesting is that the primary Turkic/Mongolic deity, Tengri, is also a sky father. There’s no shared genetic or linguistic ancestry there, just two different steppe nomad populations independently deifying the daylight sky the same way.
- janandonly 2y agoThere is a connection. Not DNA, but via trade with the Saka/Scythians, who where descendants of PIE speakers
- mjan22640 2y agoAll steppe nomads are culturally descendent from Yamna.
- bgnn 2y agoWhat you are talking abyis gök/kök tengri (lit. sky god). There are other gods in Turkic/Mongolic pantheon, like ülgen/ulgan, yer tengri (earth god).