WebThe head deity of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon was the god *Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr, whose name literally means "Sky Father". Regarded as the Sky or Day conceived as a divine entity, and thus the dwelling of the gods, the Heaven, Dyēus is, by far, the most well-attested of all the Proto-Indo-European deities.

WebDacian / ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə n / is an extinct language, generally believed to be Indo-European, that was spoken in the Carpathian region in antiquity. In the 1st century, it was probably the predominant language of the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia and possibly of some surrounding regions. The language was extinct by the 4th century AD. While there is …

WebThe concept of an otherworld in historical Indo-European religion is reconstructed in comparative mythology.Its name is a calque of orbis alius (Latin for "other Earth/world"), a term used by Lucan in his description of the Celtic Otherworld.. Comparable religious, mythological or metaphysical concepts, such as a realm of supernatural beings and a …

Web*Dyḗus (lit. "daylight-sky-god"), also *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr (lit. "father daylight-sky-god"), is the reconstructed name of the daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. *Dyēus was conceived as a divine personification of the bright sky of the day and the seat of the gods, the *deywṓs.Associated with the vast diurnal sky and with the fertile rains, *Dyēus …

WebThe Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory or Kurgan model) or Steppe theory is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European homeland from which the Indo-European languages spread out throughout Europe and parts of Asia. It postulates that the people of a Kurgan culture in the Pontic steppe north of the Black …

WebWiccan deities; Gnostic mythology; Mythologies by time period. Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation. Bronze Age. Hindu mythology; Canaanite mythology; Chinese mythology; Egyptian mythology; Hittite mythology; Hurrian mythology; Persian mythology; Proto-Indo-European mythology. Proto-Indo-Iranian mythology; Iron Age. Celtic …

WebThe following is a table of many of the most fundamental Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) words and roots, with their cognates in all of the major families of descendants. Notes. The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given ...

WebThe Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of Indo-European peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages and other cultural similarities.. The Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia around the mid-2nd millennium BC. At their peak of expansion in the mid-1st …

WebOld Persian belongs to the Iranian language family, a branch of the Indo-Iranian language family, itself within the large family of Indo-European languages.The common ancestors of Indo-Iranians came from Central Asia sometime in the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. The extinct and unattested Median language is another Old Iranian language related to …

Webh₂éwsōs or h a éusōs (PIE: *h₂éusōs, *h a éusōs and other variants; lit. 'the dawn') is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the dawn goddess in the Proto-Indo-European mythology.. h₂éwsōs is believed to have been one of the most important deities worshipped by Proto-Indo-European speakers due to the consistency of her …