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The gods, especially Sūrya, are stated to be the children of Dyauṣ and Prithvi. [9] Dyauṣ's other sons include Agni, Parjanya , the Ādityas , the Maruts , and the Angirases. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] The Ashvins are called " divó nápāt ", meaning offspring/progeny/grandsons of Dyauṣ.
Such king gods are collectively categorized as "sky father" deities, with a polarity between sky and earth often being expressed by pairing a "sky father" god with an "earth mother" goddess (pairings of a sky mother with an earth father are less frequent). A main sky goddess is often the queen of the gods and may be an air/sky goddess in her ...
Caelus or Coelus (/ ˈ s iː l ə s /; SEE-ləs) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the Latin word for "sky" or "heaven", hence English "celestial"). The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force.
A100—A199. The gods in general A101. Supreme God; A104. The Making of the Gods; A107. Gods of Darkness and Light (darkness thought of as evil and light as good). A109.1. Triple deity; A116. Triplet gods; A111.1. Mother of the gods; A111.2. Father of the Gods; A117.5. Gods as spirits of the deified dead; A131. Gods with animal features. A132.3 ...
Lampetia, goddess of light, and one of the Heliades or daughters of Helios , god of the Sun, and of the nymph Neera . Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos. Zeus, as a reflex of *Dyeus, could be considered god of the day-lit sky
Ông Trời, god of the heaven/sky and king of the gods; Mẫu Thượng Thiên, goddess of the heavens/skies; Thiên Y A Na, the goddess has the same job as the Mẫu Thượng Thiên; Mẫu Thượng Ngàn, goddess of the mountains and forests; Tản Viên Sơn Thánh, god of Ba Vì mountain range
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Sky and weather gods in Meitei mythology (4 P) Śuri (1 C, 2 P) T. ... Zeus (8 C, 35 P) Pages in category ...
' daylight-sky-god '), also *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr (lit. ' father daylight-sky-god '), [1] [2] is the reconstructed name of the daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. *Dyēus was conceived as a divine personification of the bright sky of the day and the seat of the gods, the *deywṓs.