[INDOLOGY] the late fate of the the Rig Vedic Dyaus Pater?

[Joanna Jurewicz]

I agree with Caley.

Best wishes for the newborn!

Joanna

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Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz

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wt., 31 maj 2022 o 19:19 Caley Smith via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> It seems to me speaking of an Indic diminishing of a dyaus pitar as maybe
> jumping the gun. There are plenty of heavenly figures (tvastr and savitar
> are often characterized as deva/divya) but the importance of a dyaus pitar
> can't even really be reconstructed to the indo-Iranian level. Important
> father figures are the Father Asura from RV 10.124, Kuiper has some
> interesting thoughts on this. And of course there is a heavenly mother in
> Aditi, I think it's first in Breretons the Rgvedic Adityas he suggests an
> adj a-diti "unbound" that applied to heavenly could be reanalyzed as the
> femimine partner of Heaven and become a goddess in her own right. If I
> misremember these things please forgive, I'm on my phone bouncing my
> newborn currently.
>
> It seems to me a particulary important part of Indra's character that he
> is not a biological father, and thus perhaps any study of the figure of a
> dyaus pitar might have to really re think what the family as an in situ
> political unit means in PIE and IIr. It's not really obvious to me that a
> steppe clan based family in a segmentation society should in any way have a
> similar concept of family and paternity as the fixed field agrarian Greek
> or Roman one. Sorry is not more helpful.
>
> Best,
> Caley
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2022, 2:27 PM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Hans Henrich,
>>
>> I was aware that he was not widely mentioned in RV but I hadn't thought
>> of the ramifications of that until your post.
>>
>> I realize this may be the wrong place to ask this, but are you aware of
>> any studies on the origin and fate of Dyaus/Zeus/Tiu across or within the
>> other Indo-European languages?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dean
>>
>> On Monday, May 30, 2022, 10:21:02 PM GMT+5:30, Hock, Hans Henrich <
>> hhhock at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dear Dean,
>>
>> Even in the RigVeda *dyauṣ pitṛ *appears only six times; *dyauḥ *by
>> itself, of course, occurs frequently, but often in feminine gender. In
>> addition, there is the compound *dyāvāpṛthivī. *
>>
>> So, while *dyauṣ pitṛ* (and his relation to *pṛthivī mātṛ*) may be
>> important from the perspective of comparative Indo-European mythology, his
>> role in the Vedic tradition is highly diminished from the beginning. Other
>> deities (Agni, Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, etc.) play a more important role, and
>> in Vedic Prose, Viṣṇu, as personification of the sacrifice, becomes more
>> important (as well as Rudra), and of course Prajāpati, the ‘lord of
>> creatures’.
>>
>> I hope this at least partly answers your query.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Hans Henrich
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 May2022, at 08:43, Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Indology List,
>>
>> Can anyone point me to any studies that discuss what happened to the
>> Vedic Dyaus Pater who was important in the Rig Veda but who seems to have
>> been supplanted in later times?
>>
>> It's particularly interesting for Indo-European studies because Dyaus is
>> related to the Greek Zeus and the Germanic Tyr/Tius and Dyaus Pater to the
>> Roman Ju-piter.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dean
>>
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