Deipaturos (Doric Greek: Δειπάτυροϛ, Deipáturos; lit. "sky-father")[1] was a deity worshipped in ancient times as the Sky Father in the region of Tymphaea.[2][3]
| Deipaturos | |
|---|---|
| Equivalents | |
| Indo-European | Dyēus |
Description
editDeipáturos was recorded by the Greek grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria (fifth or sixth century AD), in an entry of his lexicon named "Deipáturos, a god among the Stymphians" (Δειπάτυροϛ θεὸϛ παρὰ Στυμϕαίοιϛ). Deipaturos was worshipped as the Sky Father (*Dyēus-Ph₂tḗr), a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter.[2][1]
Deipáturos is considered an Illyrian theonym.[4][5]
According to Martin L. West, "the formal parallelism between the names of the Illyrian Deipaturos and the Messapic Damatura ["earth-mother"] may favour their having been a pair, but evidence of the liaison is lacking."[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 408–409.
- ^ a b West 2007, pp. 167, 170.
- ^ Fortson 2009, p. 470.
- ^ Filos 2023, pp. 87–88.
- ^ Shapiro, Michael (2022). The Logic of Language: A Semiotic Study of Speech. Springer Nature. p. 255. ISBN 978-3-031-06611-5.
- ^ West 2007, p. 182.
Bibliography
edit- Filos, Panagiotis (2023). "Onomastic Formulae from N. Epirus and S. Illyria: Lingustic and Sociocultural Connotations". In Albio Cesare Cassio, Sara Kaczko (ed.). Alloglо̄ssoi: Multilingualism and Minority Languages in Ancient Europe. Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics. Vol. 2. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 83–113. ISBN 9783110779684.
- Fortson, Benjamin W. (2009). Indo-European Language and Culture: an Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1405188968.
- Mallory, James P.; Adams, Douglas Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-929668-2
- West, Morris L. (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199280759.