Deipaturos

Deipaturos was a deity worshipped in ancient times as the Sky Father in the region of Tymphaea.

Description

Deipáturos was recorded by the Greek grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria, in an entry of his lexicon named "Deipáturos, a god among the Stymphians". Deipaturos was worshipped as the Sky Father, a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter.
Deipáturos is considered an Illyrian theonym.
According to Martin [Litchfield West|Martin L. West], "the formal parallelism between the names of the Illyrian Deipaturos and the Messapic Damatura may favour their having been a pair, but evidence of the liaison is lacking."