The word Dyaus, which at first meant bright, had lost its radical meaning, and now meant simply sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

'two mothers,' but when independently used the word Dyaus is male or female indifferently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Not being able to form such substantives as Dyaus, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

Like Dyaus, like Indra, like Brahman, Baal and El and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

They are the servants, the bulls of Dyaus, the glory of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Latin is Zeus pater in Greek and is Dyaus pitar in Sanskrit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Father Dyaus was originally the bright sky and nothing more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology] Reference

Asura, the Spirit; and rain comes from the Shining Sky (Dyaus).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Greek Dioskouroi, are twins, sons of Dyaus, husbands, perhaps brothers of the Dawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

Or it might be that he was slain by his son, as Cronos was by Zeus and Dyaus by Indra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

Indo-European Dyaus into the Hebrew form Jahveh has never been satisfactorily explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Dyaus, the Sky, never attained the proportions of the formally identical Zeus and Jupiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The name of the oldest and greatest among the Devas, for instance, is not simply Dyaus, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge] Reference

Even if his name mean 'sky,' Dyaus, Zeus, we must ask what mode of conceiving 'sky' is original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Mythology] Reference

Now, what happened in this instance with the name of Dyaus, happened again and again with other names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

He thunders, and Dyaus thunders, became synonymous expressions, and by the mere habit of speech He became Dyaus, and Dyaus became He.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference

733; Dyaus and Prithivi, 734; Ushas (and Çaktism), 734.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

In the Vedic hymns are invocations of Dyaus (Sky), as "our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

A native Indic point of view, it might have been expected that Dyaus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference