• association with Zeus

    TITLE: Zeus
  • Hindu mythology

    TITLE: Hinduism: Indo-European sources
    SECTION: Indo-European sources
    ...is probably true of some aspects of the ancestor cult. The Rigveda contains many other Indo-European elements, such as ritual sacrifices and the worship of male sky gods, including the old sky god Dyaus, whose name is cognate with those of Zeus of ancient Greece and Jupiter of Rome (“Father Jove”). The Vedic heaven, the “world of the fathers,” resembles the Germanic...
    TITLE: Hinduism: Cosmogony and cosmology
    SECTION: Cosmogony and cosmology
    TITLE: Hinduism: Theology
    SECTION: Theology