Indo-European Poetry and Myth

4 Sky and Earth THE DIVINE SKY There is one Indo-European god whose name we can trace across a vast area, from India to Italy. I ...

(also genitive), Oscan Dípatír, and Umbrian Iupater and Iuve patre.^5 A similar compound appears also in Illyrian Deipaturos, re ...

But in general we may say that MIE had dyéus (Dyéus) for ‘heaven (Heaven)’, whether considered as a cosmic entity or as a divine ...

At Rome Jupiter likewise enjoyed sovereign status, but his original con- nection with the sky has left traces, especially in the ...

34127, Jonval no. 7) tells of an oak growing from the top of God’s house (Dieva nama) that not even the stroke of Perko ̄n (the ...

‘Tebo Deves’; this may represent debess Dievs‘God of heaven’ or te ̄vs Dievs ‘father God’.^19 The title of ‘father’ was not conf ...

oaths, and contracts. Varuna too is vis ́vávedas- (RV 8. 42. 1) and wide of eye (urucáks ̇ as-, 1. 25. 5, al.). He has watchers ...

responsible for it. It is as the all-seeing one that he is thus invoked: Soph. Ant. 184 Aστω Ζε7 + πα ́ νθ, +ρ;ν qε, ‘let Zeus ...

loss (‘zero grade’) in unaccented syllables: nominative *dhég h o ̄m, locative dhg h ém, genitive dhgˆhmés. Forms with the ful ...

*(gˆ)dom-ya or the like.^35 The Earth-goddess is also recognizable under the name of Plataia, the eponymous nymph of Plataiai in ...

heaven (nebisasdU-as) (KBo xi. 32. 31). The Vedic Pr ̇ thivı ̄ often has the epithet ‘mother’, especially when she is mentioned ...

Tacitus reports that the German tribes in general worship ‘Nerthum, id est Terram matrem’ (Germ. 40. 2). The clearest traces of ...

Earth is suggested by the name of a pair of hills east of Killarney, Dá Chích Anann, ‘the Two Breasts of Ana’.^49 In Slavonic lo ...

wetland’; in Old English poems, wı ̄dre eorþan, Genesis 1348; geond ginne grund,Widsith 51, cf. Judith 2, Judgment Day A 12. We ...

zemlju crnu, 478 s crnom zemljom. In Serbian the phrase is employed espe- cially in connection with death or burial.^56 A Lithua ...

SKY AND EARTH AS A PAIR In the lengthy lists of deities invoked as witnesses to Hittite treaties, ‘Heaven and Earth’ regularly a ...

this picture reappears in the tragedians. In a famous fragment from Aeschy- lus’Danaids (44) Aphrodite describes how, under her ...

First (I will invoke) the ones who delimit all the fruits of agriculture with sky and earth, Jupiter and Tellus –– and so, as th ...

Bull and cow Cattle were of high importance to the early Indo-European pastoralists and provided them with a ready point of refe ...

The passage about Dyaus ‘bellowing down’ (áva krad) may recall one of the formulaic epithets applied to Zeus: 0ψιβρεμτη, ‘roar ...