Page "Sky father" Paragraph 10

It is in fact true that a male sky god, whose name has been reconstructed as * Dyēus ph < sub > 2 </ sub > ter, and which survive in Vedic mythology as Dyaus Pita, in Greek mythology as Zeus, and in Roman mythology as Jupiter, seems to have been shared and inherited from a common stock of Proto-Indo-European religion.

Each of these names is cognate to the others.

This is not, in fact, the most widespread inherited Indo-European deity.