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	Dyaus Pita
		In Hinduism, Dyaus Pita is the Sky Father[?], husband of Prthivi and father of Agni and Indra.
		He is a red bull who bellows thunder, or a fl horse adorned with pearls, symbolizing the stars.
		Dyaus Pita was killed by Indra, his son, who grabbed his foot and pulled him from the sky; he fell to his death.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/dy/Dyaush.html (76 words)

	Greek Gods - The Sanskrit Connection
		But the Greek sky-god Zeus evidently corresponds to the Hindoo sky-god Dyaus, and this word is derived from a root dyu meaning "to shine." Zeus then, the Greek theos, and the Latin deus, meant originally "the glistening ether." Similarly other Greek names are explained by their counterparts, or cognate words in Sanscrit.
		DYAUS was, as we have already indicated, the god of the bright sky, his name being connected with that of Zeus through the root dyu.
		The epithet, Dyaus pitar, is simply Zeus pater Zeus the father; or, as it is spelled in Latin, Jupiter.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/4737/greek1.html (1358 words)

	Encyclopedia of Norse Mythology - Tyr and Zisa (Page 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dyaus covers the Earth and fertilizes her with his seed, that is, with rain.[6]
		In the Indian pantheon, neither Dyaus, nor Mitra (after Dumézil), nor Varuna (as inheritor of the role of Sky Father) were viewed as specifically war gods.
		Only if one identifies Dyaus with Mitra, and then follows him to Persia where he becomes Mithra, does one approach a war god, and by the time of that transformation, the Teutonic branch of the Indo-Europeans would long have parted company with the Indo-Iranian branch.
	www.normanniireiks.org /guilds_lore/lore/encyclopedia/t/tyr1.htm (2924 words)

	Victim12.com :: CAST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dyaus is an obsessive reader, enjoys math and probability problems, and has a quick mouth.
		Through stolen medication, Dyaus managed to suppress his plague’s disturbing effects until Aidan, a neighbor in his apartment complex and a student teacher at his highschool, pursued his suspicions about Dyaus’ hidden burden and forcibly awakened it through untold measures.
		Dyaus does have family in the Victim12 universe, even though his parents are dead.
	www.victim12.com /cast.html (1293 words)

	Dyaus Pita biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In vedic religion, Dyaus Pita is the Sky Father, husband of Prthivi and father of Agni and Indra (RV 4.17.4).
		Sharing a fate similar to nordic Tyr's, already in the Rig Veda, Dyaus Pita is all but featureless, appearing in hymns 1.89, 1.90, 1.164, 1.191 and 4.1 in simple invocations.
		Thomas Oberlies tentatively identifies Asura and Dyaus in pre-vedic religion (both appear as Indra's father, but Asura is never associated with Prthivi, so there is a possibility of two conflicting myths).
	dyaus-pita.biography.ms (182 words)

	Deity
		The original meaning of the word is shown in the Sanskrit dyaus, gen. divas, root div, which root appears in an adjective formation as deva, "bright", "heavenly" -- attributes of God -- hence devas, "the bright beings", or, as a noun substantive, dyaus.
		Jupiter in Latin is Zeus pater in Greek and is Dyaus pitar in Sanskrit.
		Rightly, therefore, Jevons holds that the ghost never became a god and rejects the theory that all the deities of the earlier races, without exception, were the spirits of dead men divinized.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/deity.html (7527 words)

	Prthivi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prthivi is a chthonic, or earth, goddess with whom the sky god Dyaus Pitar couples fertilizes her with rain.
		She is said to kiss the center of the world and she symbolizes the eternal patience and resilience of the earth, permitting herself to be abused without rancor.
		As the inseparable partner of Dyaus Pitar she is rarely addressed alone, though in the Atharva-Veda Dyaus Pitar is not mentioned.
	www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/prthivi.html (276 words)

	Victim12.com :: ARCHIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Leon cannot understand why his job is so tedious; most plagues are slightly troubled the 3 days after their Awakening, but Dyaus' consistent state of slumber has left him to take catnaps around the house until his status changes.
		Leon goes to check on Dyaus, but it seems the boy has abandoned the room he was resting in.
		Dyaus, not recalling at all what happened with Leon only moments before, demands a name.
	www.victim12.com /archive.html (599 words)

	An Outline of the Vedic Pantheon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The epithet, Dyaus pitar, is simply Zeus pater -- Zeus the father; or, as it is spelled in Latin, Jupiter.
		The connection, or identity, between Zeus and Dyaus seems to be chiefly a philological one.
		Indra, as the hurler of the thunderbolts, and as a "cloud compeller," coincides with Zeus and Thor.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /ved_rel.htm (4040 words)

	Dyaus Pita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Vedic religion Dyauṣ Pitar is the Sky Father, husband of Prithvi and father of Agni and Indra (RV 4.17.4).
		Sharing a fate similar to nordic Tyr's, already in the Rig Veda, Dyaus Pitar is all but featureless, appearing in hymns 1.89, 1.90, 1.164, 1.191 and 4.1 in simple invocations.
		Thomas Oberlies tentatively identifies Asura and Dyaus in pre-vedic religion (both appear as Indra's father, but Asura is never associated with Prithvi, so there is a possibility of two conflicting myths).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dyaus (235 words)

	Dyaus Pitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dyaus Pitar, heaven father, is the creator god mentioned in the Rg Veda and other Vedic texts.
		He is associated with the goddess Prthivi, and this primordial couple is normally addressed as Dyavaprthivi.
		Dyaus Pitar is overshadowed and superseded by the rain god Indra, possibly because Aryan settlers brought him into India from the north who had been used to a cold and bleak climate and who needed a supreme deity more relevant to a hot, dry environment.
	www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/dyaus%20_ptar.html (118 words)

	BtVS-RPG.net - Some Powers That Were
		Sometimes Dyaus appears to a new pope and informs the pontiff that God is granting the Bishop of Rome an audience.
		Dyaus will tell the pope what he wants done and the pope better do it or else (the main result of this were the crusades, when Dyaus was trying to take down Varuna Makara).
		Until that time, Dyaus is content contemplating his greatness in the catacombs of Rome and occasionally averting an Apocalypse when the champions on the scene have all failed.
	www.btvs-rpg.net /article.php3?id_article=54 (1506 words)

	GOD: Where? Who? What?
		Before the radiant god Dyaus (the sky) attracted the notice of man, there was the Vedic Tad ("that") which, to the Initiate and philosopher, would have no definite name, and which was the absolute Darkness that underlies every manifested radiancy.
		Thus the Sun became very soon interchangeable and one with Dyaus; for some, the "Son," for others, the "Father" in the radiant sky; Dyaus-Pitar, the Father in the Son, and the Son in the Father, truly shows however, his finite origin by having the Earth assigned to him as a wife.
		Dyaus, the sky, became very soon Dyaus or Heaven, the abode of the "Father," and finally, indeed, that Father himself.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/deity/GodWhereWhoWhat.html (3339 words)

	The Indus Valley and Hindus
		They believed that their father god, Dyaus Pitar, the embodiment of sky, had mated with his own daughter, the goddess that was earth.
		According to this story, the gods were concerned that humanity would become gods like themselves, and to guard against this the gods plotted humanity's downfall.
		Indra was now seen as the god that had created the cosmos, the ruler of the atmosphere, and the god of thunderbolts and rain - Dyaus Pitar having diminished in importance.
	www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch05.htm (2682 words)

	Vedic Gods & Goddesses
		In the Rig Veda furthermore she is always coupled with Dyaus the male deity associated with the sky.
		Although elsewhere she is said to move freely, Prithvi with Dyaus is often petitioned for wealth, riches and power.
		In brief, Prithvi is a stable, fertile and benign presence in Vedic literature-It is clear that those who praise her see her as a warm, nursing goddess who provides sustenance to all those who' move upon her firm, broad expanse.
	www.yogamag.net /archives/1991/1jan91/vedgod.shtml (1024 words)

	Dyaus Pita
		Dyaus or Dyaus Pita was the Sky Father of Indian myth.
		Dyaus, like his Greek counterpart Cronus, is slain by his own son.
		Article "Dyaus Pita" created on 23 June 1998; last modified on 27 December 1998 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/dyaus_pita.html (118 words)

	Dhaman - The Definitive Guide: Hindu Gods and Goddesses
		Prithvi, the earth, and Dyaus, the sky or heaven, were symbolized as cow and bull.
		Prithvi was the heroic female and Dyaus, the vigorous god.
		Indra is the sky god and the son of Prithvi and Dyaus.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /southbank/performing/31/hindu_gods.html (1469 words)

	Northvegr - Grimm's TM - Chap. 9
		To the digammated and older form of the Greek obique cases there corresponds also the Latin Jovem, Jovis, Jovi, for which we must assume a nom.
		The change of letters is like that of briig, jusculum, for brîw; and we may at least infer from it, that the vowel is long, Tîg.
		2, 231, has rightly pointed out, that Zio can be immediately related only to dyaus and ZeÚj, not to deus and qeÒj; but he ought to have admitted that mediately it must be related to these last also.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/grimmst/009_01.php (930 words)

	culture
		Besides the gods and goddesses, there are enigmatic spirits who guard the bounty of Nature and celebrate its beauty.
		His counterpart was the Sky Father Dyaus, and they originally were merged as a single deity named Dyavaprthivi.
		She was the mother of Indra, and praised her son when he slew his father Dyaus, then allowed him to take Dyaus' place as her consort.
	www.narasimhan.com /SK/Culture/mythology/myth_demigods.htm (1104 words)

	Pentaith's Encyclopedia of Places: Leth Deriel
		She was once wed to Ralel Maleiron, and is currently engaged to a Human smuggler named Kiernen Allvar.
		The government of Leth Deriel is situated in the giant Sana'ati Dyaus Drui'tas.
		Initially, it was just the Sana'ati Dyaus Drui'tas, which served as a fortress.
	www.dm.net /~dream/WhosWho/LethDeriel.html (269 words)

	Atar (Hindu god)
		Known Relatives: Dyaus (father), Prithivi (mother), Indra, Vayu, Tvashtri, Surya (brothers), Ushas, Ratri (sisters), Kama (brother in law), Agneyi (wife), Kartikeyi (son, deceased), Angiras (grandson), Agni II (great-grandson), Varuna (grandfather, alias Ormazd)
		History: (Hindu-Persian Myth)- Agni is the son of Dyaus, the sky-god, and Prithivi, the earth-goddess.
		Very little is known about his role or his character except he was one of the most important gods of the early Vedic Pantheon.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/atarnire.htm (956 words)

	Our Home - Leth Deriel
		In the midst of this clearing is the mighty tree known throughout Elanthia as Sana'ati Dyaus.
		For this purpose, is the existence of the stronghold and fortress of Leth Deriel, and all of the dedicated High Elves who defend it.
		In all the lore, among all the sacred Sana'ati trees that form the core of Elven settlements, Sana'ati Dyaus is perhaps
	members.aol.com /BeagothDR/LethDeriel.html (2213 words)

	Cosmogony
		Among the Polynesians the children of heaven and earth—the winds, forests, and seas personified—angry at being crushed between their parents in darkness, rose up and separated them.
		This is in effect the Greek myth of Uranus, or Heaven, and Gaea, or Earth, divorced by their son Kronos, just as in Hindu myth Dyaus, or Sky, and Prithivi, or Earth, were separated by Indra.
		Uranus in Greece gave place to Zeus, and, in India, Dyaus became subordinate to Indra.
	www.worldspirituality.org /cosmogony.html (1107 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Folk-Lore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To the Parsee follower of Zarathustra the name of the Devil has very nearly the same signification as to the Christian; yet, as Grimm has shown, it is nothing else than a corruption of deva, the Sanskrit name for God.
		To interpret Zeus or Jupiter as originally the supreme Aryan god, and to regard classic paganism as one of the degraded remnants of a primeval monotheism, is to sin against the canons of a sound inductive philosophy.
		The common element which, in Dyaus and Varuna, in Bhaga and Indra, was made an object of worship, is the brightness, warmth, and life of day, as contrasted with the darkness, cold, and seeming death of the night-time.
	www.webroots.org /library/usafolk/mamm0004.html (7801 words)

	Dyaus - Megaten Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Male consort of Prithivi and father of Agni and Indra.
		All along Dyaus is a minor / little-known fatherlike deity since Rig Veda.
		This page was last modified 13:04, 11 May 2006.
	www.popanime.net /megami/wiki/index.php?title=Dyaus (49 words)

	Taffei's Journal ~ Theren Fest ~ 6
		a deerskin hac embroidered with the Sana'ati Dyaus on the left breast.
		You also see a sanrisi chest with some stuff on it and an antiqued sanrisi cabinet.
		a brown doeskin gerri with a silver buckle emblazoned with an emerald and platinum-inlaid Sana'ati Dyaus.
	www.taffeisjournal.com /TherenFest6.html (2004 words)

	Myths and Myth-Makers: IV. Light And Darkness by John Fiske (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Sanskrit dyu, as anoun, means "sky" and "day"; and there are many passages inthe Rig-Veda where the character of the god Dyaus, as thepersonification of the sky or the brightness of the etherealheavens, is unmistakably apparent.
		To interpret Zeus or Jupiter asoriginally the supreme Aryan god, and to regard classicpaganism as one of the degraded remnants of a primevalmonotheism, is to sin against the canons of a sound inductivephilosophy.
		The common element which, in Dyaus and Varuna, inBhaga and Indra, was made an object of worship, is thebrightness, warmth, and life of day, as contrasted with thedarkness, cold, and seeming death of the night-time.
	englishatheist.org /folklore/fiskefour.shtml (8046 words)

	dyaus - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		DYAUS : Of Gods and Men (mythology) [home, info]
		Phrases that include dyaus: dyaus pitar, dyaus pita
	www.onelook.com /?w=dyaus&ls=a (93 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Game Reviews by me for you!
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	rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_view.php?journalid=89404&view=public (76 words)

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