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The God Who Fell Silent: Dyaus Pita and the Faded Sky Father
Dyaus is the one Rigvedic god whose name we can pronounce with confidence across five thousand years: he is Zeus, he is Jupiter. Yet in the Rigveda he has no hymn of his own. This is the story of the Sky Father who ruled everywhere else and dissolved into the background in India.
Vedic Gods Across the Indo-European World: From Dyaus Pitar to Zeus
Dyaus Pitar = Zeus = Jupiter. Uṣas = Eos = Aurora. Indra slaying Vṛtra = Apollo slaying Python = Thor and Jörmungandr. How comparative philology reconstructs the religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans — with the Rig Veda as the most conservative witness.