Deipaturos
Deipaturos
Main page

Deipaturos

logo
Community Hub0 subscribers
What are your thoughts?
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Deipaturos

Deipaturos (Doric Greek: Δειπάτυρος, Deipáturos; lit. "sky-father") was a deity worshipped in ancient times as the Sky Father in the region of Tymphaea.

Deipáturos 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" (Δειπάτυρος θεὸς παρὰ Στυμφαίοις). Deipaturos was worshipped as the Sky Father (*Dyēus-Ph₂tḗr), a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter.

Deipáturos is considered an Illyrian theonym.

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."

See all
User Avatar
No comments yet.