Cult of Gods

Dyaus Pitar

Hindu tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
sky father
Partner
Prithvi
Children
Indra
Vishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.
Vishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.

Key myth

In the Rigveda, Dyaus is 'father heaven', paired with Prithvi. His name is cognate with Zeus and Jupiter, which shows an Indo-European sky father, but he receives few hymns.

Primary sources

  • Rigveda 1.185 (Dyaus and Prithvi)

All sources for the Hindu pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

Dyaus PitarPrithviIndraAgniVarunaSuryaYamaUshasVishnuLakshmiShivaParvatiSaraswatiGaneshaKartikeyaDurgaKrishna

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Dyaus Pitar: sky, storm and thunder. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Thor

thunder, protection of gods and people, strength

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Egyptian

Shu

air, sunlight

Egyptian

Tefnut

moisture, the lion's rage

Egyptian

Nut

sky, stars

Egyptian

Seth

storm, desert, chaos

Egyptian

Horus

kingship, sky

Egyptian

Hathor

love, music, joy

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