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Deipaturos

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Deipaturos
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Indo-European equivalentDyēus

Deipaturos (Doric Greek: Δειπάτυροϛ, Deipáturos; lit. "sky-father")[1] was a deity worshipped in ancient times as the Sky Father in the region of Tymphaea.[2][3]

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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" (Δειπάτυροϛ θεὸϛ παρὰ Στυμϕαίοιϛ). Deipaturos was worshipped as the Sky Father (*Dyēus-Ph₂tḗr), a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter.[2][1]

Deipáturos is considered an Illyrian theonym.[4][5]

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."[6]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Mallory & Adams 2006, p. 408–409.
  2. ^ a b West 2007, pp. 167, 170.
  3. ^ Fortson 2009, p. 470.
  4. ^ Filos 2023, pp. 87–88.
  5. ^ Shapiro, Michael (2022). The Logic of Language: A Semiotic Study of Speech. Springer Nature. p. 255. ISBN 978-3-031-06611-5.
  6. ^ West 2007, p. 182.

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