Heaven
deity figure · 7 works · 9 mentions · 19 anchored passages
also in the atlas: heaven the place
Caelus · Dyaus · Ouranos · heaven · signs from heaven · starry Heaven · the gods
spoken of as
2 expressionsDyaus“Heaven”2 mentions
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Rigveda (Sanskrit)
the plow of six yokings follows the Sāman upon Sāman — six, they say, are Heaven-and-Earth, six the broad expanses.
The Gods“Heaven”1 mention
On the murder of Herodes (Greek)
they would be showing that here, in the signs from heaven, was to be found the clearest confirmation of their charge.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The personified Heaven, paired with Earth as cosmic steadying and compelling force.
Heaven stood firm, the earth stood firm, this broad atmosphere stood firm.
May Heaven and Earth scorch you together — you shall not find rest here unless longing for me.
I lift up Heaven and Earth together with the plants.
On the Nature of the Gods
Sky god mutilated by Saturn in myth, allegorically interpreted as the highest fiery nature of the heavens.
For they meant that the highest and ethereal — that is, the fiery — nature of the heaven, which of itself generated all things, was free from that part of the body which would need conjunction with another for procreating.
For this old opinion filled Greece, that Caelus was mutilated by his son Saturn, and Saturn himself bound by his son Jove:
In the first place, those who are called theologians reckon three Joves, of whom the first and the second were born in Arcadia, the one with Aether for his father, of whom they say Proserpina too and Liber were born, the other with Caelus for his father, who is said to have begotten Minerva, whom they say to be the chief and inventor of war;
On the murder of Herodes
The divine powers ('the gods'/'heaven') whose signs and judgments are repeatedly invoked as evidence bearing on the defendant's guilt or innocence and on the moral stakes of the verdict.
they would be showing that here, in the signs from heaven, was to be found the clearest confirmation of their charge.
But in cases of this nature the indications furnished by heaven must also have no small influence on your verdict.
whereas to find an innocent man guilty of murder is a mistake, and a sinful mistake, which offends both gods and laws.
Heracles
Primordial sky god; Madness claims descent from his blood, underscoring her ancient and fearsome pedigree.
Of noble parents was I born, the daughter of Night, sprung from the blood of Ouranos;
Theogony
The primeval sky-god who, together with Earth, advises Zeus to swallow Metis.
But when she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athena, Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own belly, as Earth and starry Heaven advised.
Rigveda
Sky-father deity, begetter who fashioned the treasure Agni leads toward, and father whose thought produced Indra.
Of good heroes, your father Heaven thought — the creator of Indra became the best craftsman.
That which all the immortals fashioned by thought, that which Father Dyaus, the begetter, made true and watered.
You are great, O Indra — the earth followed your dominion in homage, heaven thought of you with generosity.
Ad Nationes
Personified sky, father of Saturn, castrated by his own son.
But some seem to themselves to interpret elegantly, in a physiological way, by allegorical argumentation, that Saturn is Time, and therefore Heaven and Earth his parents, as themselves having no origin, and therefore furnished with a sickle because by time all things are cut apart, and therefore a devourer of his own because all things put forth from himself he consumes back into himself.