Proto-Indo-European Deities

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The Proto-Indo-European culture is what is behind the cultures and languages that make up the Indo-European family. These include, among others, the Celts, the Teutons, the Romans, the Greeks, the Balts, the Slavs, and the Vedic Indians. The Proto-Indo-Europeans are worth studying on their own, but they have the added advantage of helping to understand there descendant cultures and, for those interested in working with the religions of the descendant cultures, of filling in gaps in our knowledge of them. Among the things that can be reconstructed for the Proto-Indo-Europeans are a number of deities. In this video, I discuss those, giving their names, their characteristics, the sort of people and things that are patrons of, and some of the evidence for how we know these things. My time was too short to describe the deities completely, and to give the evidence for how we know about them. If you'd like to know more, you can go to my website, http://ceisiwrserith.com/, or read my book, Deep Ancestors, which can be purchased through my website If you like what I do, please subscribe. Linguists give Proto-Indo-European words in a phonemic form. To make them easier to pronounced, I've converted the names in the slides to their phonological form. So you can look them up more easily, though, I've given both the phonological and the phonemic forms (the latter in parentheses) in the list of slide sources below. Map of Indo-European lands: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indo-European_branches_map.png Hittite inscription: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hittite_language#mediaviewer/File:Istanbul_-_Museo_archeol._-_Trattato_di_Qadesh_fra_ittiti_ed_egizi_(1269_a.C.)_-_Foto_G._Dall%27Orto_28-5-2006_dett.jpg Page from the Rig Veda: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Rig_Veda.jpg Page from the Iliad: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Iliad_manuscripts#mediaviewer/File:Townley_Homer.jpg Roman inscription: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Latin_inscriptions#mediaviewer/File:Inscription_latine_avec_apex.png Coligny calendar: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Calendrier_de_Coligny#mediaviewer/File:Coligny-closeup.jpg Dyḗus Ptḗr (*Dyḗus PtḗH2r): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trees-sky.jpg Xáryomēn (*H2éri̯omēn): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_downtown_skyline.jpg Perkwū́nos (*PerkwúH3nos): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foudre.JPG Diwós Sunú (*Diu̯ós SuHnū́): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Horse#mediaviewer/File:Gallopingbashkircurly2.jpg Xákwōm Népōt (*H2ékwōm Népōt): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pat_O%27Brien%27s_Flaming_Fountain.jpg Yemós (*(H)iemós) and Mannus: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8B.JPG Páxusōn(*PéH2usō(n)): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wagon_train_-_NARA_-_524828.jpg Mēnōs: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010.01.31_Lunar_Corona.jpg Ɂéḱwonā (*H1éḱwoneH2): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lovely_Little_Girl.jpg Gwouwindā (*GwouwindeH2): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chillinghamherd.jpg Xáusōs (*H2eusṓs): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biwa_Lake.jpg Sawélyosyo Dhugətḗr(*SeH2u̯eli̯osi̯o DhugH2tēr): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_taking_Z%27s.JPG Donu: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dniester_river_near_%C5%A2ipova.jpg Westyā (*H2u̯estieH2): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firetora.jpg Dhéǵhōm Mā́tr (*Dhéǵhōm MH2étṛ): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steppe_of_western_Kazakhstan_in_the_early_spring.jpg Kolyos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neu-England_Man_(cropped).jpg