Dyaus
Americannoun
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This God was named by the various names of the sky—Dyaus, Varana, Svar, which, according to the requirements of the thought, described either the object or the person, the heavens or the God.
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Zeus is admitted to be connected with Dyaus, and to have originally meant "sky".
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Our Aryan forefathers looked up to the heavens and they gave it the name of Dyaus, from a root-word which means "to shine."
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It was delightful to see that Dyaus meant originally the bright sky, something actually seen, but something that had to become something unseen.
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Dyaus, the sky, the heaven-god, can be worshipped anywhere; so can the earth, so can the heavenly twins, who were objects of early Aryan religion, so can the sun and moon.
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