Deipaturos
Deipaturos (Illyrian: Dei-pátrous; Doric Greek: Δειπάτυροϛ Deipáturos; lit. "sky-father")[1][2] was an Illyrian deity worshiped in the region of Tymphaea as the Sky Father.[3][4]
Description
Dei-pátrous 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" (Δειπάτυροϛ θεὸϛ παρὰ Στυμϕαίοιϛ).[2] Deipaturos was worshiped as the Sky Father (*Dyēus-Ph₂tḗr), a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter.[3][1] According to linguist Émile Benveniste, the region of Tymphaea was inhabited by an ancient Illyrian population that may have influenced the Greek Doric form copied by Hesychius as Δειπάτυροϛ ("Deipáturos").[2]
According to Martin L. West, "the formal parallelism between the names of the Illyrian Deipaturos and the Messapic (Illyrian) Damatura ["earth-mother"] may favour their having been a pair, but evidence of the liaison is lacking."[5]
See also
References
- Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 408–409.
- Benveniste 2016, p. 166.
- West 2007, pp. 167, 170.
- Fortson 2009, p. 470.
- West 2007, p. 182.
Bibliography
- Benveniste, Émile (2016) [1969]. Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society. Hau Books (University of Chicago Press). ISBN 978-0-9861325-9-9.}
- Fortson, Benjamin W. (2009). Indo-European Language and Culture: an Introduction. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1405188968.
- Mallory, James P.; Adams, Douglas Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-929668-2
- West, Morris L. (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199280759.
