Heaven and Earth
deity figure · 3 works · 21 mentions · 51 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Heaven and Earth the place · Heaven and Earth the group
Dyāvāpṛthivī · Dyaus and Pṛthivī · heaven and earth · Dyaus and Prthivi · Dyauṣpitā · Earth · Father Heaven · Father and Mother · Heaven · Heaven-and-Earth
spoken of as
2 expressionsDyavaprthivi“Heaven and Earth”2 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
— understand this for me, O heaven and earth.
Dyaus and Pṛthivī“Heaven and Earth”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
May heaven and earth be well-ordered;
in the texts
Rigveda
Cosmic pair of goddesses, Heaven and Earth, invoked jointly and Earth addressed individually for shelter.
Be gentle, O Earth, thornless and good for settling;
Let great Heaven and Earth refresh this our sacrifice;
O Heaven and Earth, protect us from calamity.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The paired deities of Heaven and Earth invoked as cosmic agents.
The atmosphere makes us fearless, both heaven and earth make us fearless;
Indra and Agni, Mitra and Varuṇa, both Heaven and Earth, Mātariśvan, the Aśvins, god Savitṛ, and Bhaga — let all of these smite his mind;
Heaven and Earth — let them press it out.
Against Aristocrates
Divine or cosmic powers invoked rhetorically by the speaker.
Heaven and Earth!
You may be sure that I for one, as Heaven is my witness, would never have dared to lay this indictment, if I had not thought it entirely dishonorable that at this time, when I see people engaged in a project to the disadvantage of our commonwealth, I should hold my peace, and close my lips,—I who, on a former occasion, when I sailed for the Hellespont in command of a war-galley, spoke out and deno …