Dyaus

American  

[dyous] / dyaʊs /

noun

1. the Vedic god of the sky.

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Example Sentences

There were a few men, no doubt, at all times, who saw through this mythological phraseology, who called on God, though they called him Zeus, or Dyaus, or Jupiter.

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

They regard the Greek Zeus as the equivalent of the Sanskrit Dyaus, "the bright one," a term for the sky.*

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

But, to adopt the language of Mr. Max M�ller, who appears to hold the same views, "Dyaus ceased to be an expressive predicate; it became a traditional name";* it "lost its radical meaning".

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

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

It was delightful to see that Dyaus meant originally the bright sky, something actually seen, but something that had to become something unseen.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)