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. In the Vedic religion, Indra has prominence over Dyeus, who was formerly the chief god of the Indo-European pantheon. Dyeus appears in the Vedas as ...

In this way, Shangdi bears more similarities to the dyeus figures in Indo-European religions (e.g., Zeus, Jupiter, Tiwaz) than to the God of Jews, Christians ...

derived. Related but distinct is the proper name Dyeus, which while from the same root, may originally have referred to the sky, and hence to "Father ...

Zeus is a continuation of the theonym Dyeus, which referred to the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime sky. In Sanskrit, Zeus was known by ...