Dyaus Pita

Dyaus Pita (Sanskrit Dyaus Pita द्यौष् पिता ) is in the Vedic religion of heaven and God the Father, husband of Prithvi Mata and father of Agni, Indra, Surya and Usha. His symbolic animal is the bull.

Its roots go back to Proto-Indo -Germanic sky god * deiwos, and are reflected in the Greek Zeus ( Ancient Greek Ζεύς, accusative Día Δία ancient Greek, ancient Greek genitive Διός Diós ), in the Roman Jupiter ( from the Latin pater Jovius ), in the Div of Slavic mythology, in the Albanian Zoti and Tyr of the Nordic mythology resist.

Connections to the Germanic god " Zio " (Tyr ) and to Zeus and Jupiter are obviously not only for the Sanskrit researcher Friedrich Max Müller. In the Rigveda Dyaus Pita does not remain unmentioned. He appears in the hymns 1.89 desa, desa 1.90, 1.164 and 4.1 desa desa. Invocations in simple

In RV 1,89,4 desa Dyaus Pita " father sky " next Matar Prithvi "Mother Earth " appears.

The Rigveda provides little guidance, however, seems to have Indra killed his father. In the art of Dyaus Pita is represented in two ways: as a red bull, roaring like thunder, or as a black horse, decorated with beads that represent the stars in space.