"Dyaus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... same change which we are enabled to trace in the early transformations of Aryan religion. There, also, the older god of the sky and light, Dyaus, once common to all members of the Indo-European family, gave way to the more active deities, Indra, Zeus and Odin, divinities of the storm and the wind, but which, after all, are merely other aspects of the ancient deity, and occupied his place to the religious sense.[1] It is essential, for the ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton |
