Thought to have been the chief deity of many proto-Indo-European groups, his name is a back-construct from etymological and cultural remnants: he is not in his earliest form the subject of inscriptions. Early Hinduism associates him with the goddess PRTHIVI, wich whom he created the rest of the Vedic pantheon. His role in myth is superseded by INDRA. Dyeus is the god of the daylight sky: the name means 'Heaven Father'. (as DYEUS PHITER or DYAUS-PITR with attributes almost identical to those of TENGRI. PRABHĀSA means 'shining dawn'. Variants of his name are visible across Europe and Asia: Dyeus surfaces among the Greeks as ZEUS, and Dyeus Phiter is the Romans' JUPITER. DYAUS PITA or PITR is the Vedic (proto-Indian) god of the sky, Sanskrit DYÀUSPÍTAH. There are possible etymological links too with DIONYSUS and the Thracian SABAZIOS, or Saba Zeus, and there is speculation that the Slavic sky-deity SVAROG is also a 'descendant'. The Indo-European root-word 'deiwos' gave rise to the Latin 'deus' (god). He surfaces as DEVA and DAEVA in Indo-Iranian, as the Baltic religions' DIEVAS, the Estonian THERAPITA, the Finns' TAIVAS, the Gaulish/Celtic DĒUOS, TIVAR and TYR in Old Norse and the Germanic deity TIWAZ even turns up in Tuesday, 'Tiwaz's day'. In English, the words divine and deity are derived from this god's name and modern Greek and Romance languages all have variants of his name for 'god'
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