#sky deities

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Gods of Antiquity: Sky Deities

By Pamani - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32802603

Sky deities are associated with the daytime sky and often the weather events that occur in it. The day and night are often seen as the upper and lower worlds, respectively, so the deity of the sky is the deity of the upper world. Sky deities might be paired with a consort to rule over the sky or possibly as a sky father paired with a terrestrial goddess.

By Annya.ch - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116997987

*Dyḗus, or *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr, is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European daylight sky god, a father god. *Dyḗus held a dual role as god and location. He was described as 'all-seeing' or having 'wide vision' related to being a celestial god, though likely not in charge of justice or righteousness.

*Deywós is a variation that holds the meaning 'celestial' and could be used to refer to 'god' in general, or even 'divine', leading to *denos, the word for 'day'.

By Jastrow (2010), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1250660

As with *H₂éwsōs (dawn), *Dyḗus has many descendants through the Indo-European speaking world. These include the ones that seem obvious, like Dyáuṣ (द्यौष्) in Sanskrit, meaning the god of Heaven, Greek Ζεύς (Zeus), the god of the Sky, and the Latin Diūs, the god of oaths, to ones that seem less obvious, like Latin Jupiter, the god of the Sky, which comes from *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr through Iūpiter, and the Armenian Տիւ (tiw), meaning day, daytime, morning', which comes through the *dyeu part of the name, as do many variations of dei-.

The spread of Indo-European languages through Eurasia led to loanwords being introduced into non-related languages like Estonian (taevas) and Finish (taivas), both of why mean 'sky'.

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Arianrhod, Welsh Star Goddess of Reincarnation

Arianrhod (ar i AN trod), Welsh Star Goddess of Reincarnation, is known as Silver Wheel, Silver Circle, High Fruitful Mother, and Sky Goddess. She is a primal figure of feminine power, a Celestial Mother Goddess who through her role as Goddess of Reincarnation, rules fertility and childbirth.

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Twelve Olympians → Artemis /ɑːrtᵻmᵻs/ Ἄρτεμις

Greek goddess of the hunt, virginity, archery, the moon, and all animals.

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Primordial Deities → Aether /ˈiːθər/ Αἰθήρ

Greek god/personification of light and the upper atmosphere.  He embodies the pure upper air that the gods breathe.

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Twelve Olympians → Apollo /ɑːpóllɔː/ Ἀπόλλων

Greek god of light, prophecy, inspiration, poetry, music and arts, medicine and healing.

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Twelve Olympians → Hera /hɛrə/ Ἥρᾱ

Greek goddess of women and marriage. Queen of the gods.

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Daughter of Sun and Thunder

Being daughter of two fathers (gods, being gods, can do that sort of thing), it makes sense that she should be patron of same-sex love.*

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