Tius

Author: * Hols Haraldsson - 1 Post on this thread out of 5 Posts sitewide.
Date: Mar 11, 2004 - 15:39

at the helm

I don't know much about Viking religion. From what i have read here, I notice that Hellene and Viking gods and demi-gods act in much the same way. They steal, they lie, they commit incest, they threaten, whatever. In other words: they are very human. They are a mirror of our everyday life. They do not show us the way we should live, like the christian gospels. So they are not serious stuff. When Herodotos wrote his very readable "The Report Of My Investigation" in 430 BC, he tells of the religions of other people and he readily translates the foreign gods into gods of the Greek pantheon. To him they are just different forms and names for the same gods. I think that by the time the Indogermans have turned into Hellenes, Celts, Romans or Germanics,the religions of these peoples had already diverged in totally different ways. When we see semblances, it is because they all spring from the same imagination. Whatever is left of a common source may be found in the etymology of the names of gods. But the only god I can think of is Tius, who must be the same as Zeus in Greek and Diyaus in Sanskrit. I guess the Latin name for god- deus - stems from the same origin.