"'Diawas Pithair!'" (p. 233)
"'...Zeus the Father...'" (p. 236)
The Latin name Iuppiter originated as a vocative compound of the Old Latin vocative *Iou and pater ("father") and came to replace the Old Latin nominative case *Ious. Jove[106] is a less common English formation based on Iov-, the stem of oblique cases of the Latin name. Linguistic studies identify the form *Iou-pater as deriving from the Indo-European vocative compound *Dyēu-pəter (meaning "O Father Sky-god"; nominative: *Dyēus-pətēr).[107]
-copied from here.
Odin is Allfather.
"The Father and I are one." (See here.)
Here is a strong common theme in theistic religion.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I have noticed in Stirling's Nantucket books the reverence of the Indo-Europeans for "Father Sky God."
The orthodox Christian belief is that God the Father and the Son are consubstantial in being, but still distinct and real Persons. And, yes, I realize how difficult the doctrine of the Trinity has been. Hence we have seen the rise within and out side Christianity denying this revelation: Modalism, Arianism, Islam, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.
Sean
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