Re:Something big just hit Jupiter
by sillyquiet on Monday September 20, 2021 @12:56PM
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> Whether or not these deities were similarly associated with the planet Jupiter is a different question though.
Very doubtful, those names are modern applications to the planet. Although, there is zero doubt they were aware of and cognizant of the visible planets and their motions and no doubt had important names for them, it wasn't what western astronomers called them, almost certainly.
Also Dyaus Pater was a god of the daylight sky for the most part, which in the steppes, as you can imagine, made him pretty important and omnipresent.
Hm, Jove and Yahwe are pretty close i'd say.
We have no idea how the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH is supposed to be pronounced. And there are no etymological common roots between this semitic root and the attested Indo-European origin of Iove.
It's possible that the Yahweh vocalization has been influenced by the Roman Catholic church in order to "romanize" christianity
> also Juppiter, c. 1200, "supreme deity of the ancient Romans," from Latin Iupeter, Iupiter, Iuppiter, "Jove, god of the sky and chief of the gods," from PIE dyeu-peter- "god-father" (originally vocative, "the name naturally occurring most frequently in invocations" [Tucker]), from deiw-os "god" (from root *dyeu- "to shine," in derivatives "sky, heaven, god") + peter "father" in the sense of "male head of a household" (see father (n.)).
Greek and Sanskrit also had similar deities:
> Compare Greek Zeu pater, vocative of Zeus pater "Father Zeus;" Sanskrit Dyaus pitar "heavenly father."
Basically the Greeks dropped the `-pater` bit and `Zeus` remained.
Whether or not these deities were similarly associated with the planet Jupiter is a different question though.