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)
O mortals, ye do not see it — understand this for me, O heaven and earth.
Dyaus and Pṛthivī“Heaven and Earth”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Of Karṣapha, of Viśapha — Dyauṣpitā (Sky-Father) is the father, Earth the mother.
in the texts
Rigveda
Cosmic pair of goddesses, Heaven and Earth, invoked jointly and Earth addressed individually for shelter.
Let great Heaven and Earth refresh this our sacrifice;
Be gentle, O Earth, thornless and good for settling;
Heaven is your father, Earth your mother, Soma your brother, Aditi your sister.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The paired deities of Heaven and Earth invoked as cosmic agents.
Indra and Agni, Mitra and Varuṇa, both Heaven and Earth, Mātariśvan, the Aśvins, god Savitṛ, and Bhaga — let all of these smite his mind;
The atmosphere makes us fearless, both heaven and earth make us fearless;
May Sūrya together with Heaven-and-Earth guard me from the western direction.
Against Aristocrates
Divine or cosmic powers invoked rhetorically by the speaker.
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 …
Heaven and Earth!