Dyaus

American  

[dyous] / djaʊs /

noun

1. the Vedic god of the sky.

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Dyaus

Sometimes this Parganya stands in the place of Dyaus, the sky.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder

Like Dyaus, like Indra, like Brahman, Baal and El and Moloch were names of God, but not yet of the One God.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Dyaus, the Sky, never attained the proportions of the formally identical Zeus and Jupiter.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow

The Christian God supreme of the nineteenth century is still Dyaus Pitar, the "Heavenly Father."

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by T. W. Doane

In some verses Parganya seems to step into the place of Dyaus, the sky, and Prithivî, the earth, is his wife.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder