Dyaus

American  

[dyous] / djaʊs /

noun

1. the Vedic god of the sky.

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He thunders, and Dyaus thunders, became synonymous expressions, and by the mere habit of speech He became Dyaus, and Dyaus became He.

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

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 Wilder, Alexander

We know, however, that while they called the sky Dyaus, they had in mind an infinite subject, a Deva, a God.

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Zeus is admitted to be connected with Dyaus, and to have originally meant "sky".

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

In the Veda, Dyaus appears now, as with Prithivi,** the parent of all, both men and gods, now as a created thing or being fashioned by Indra or by Tvashtri.***

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew