Dyaus Pita

That is, he is the deified firmament, a personal sky, just as Nyankupon is to the Tish, Nyonmo to the Gar, and Mawu to the Ewe.

As was mentioned in the last volume, the general bias of the Negro mind has been in favor of selecting the firmament for the chief nature god instead of the sun, the moon, or earth, and in this respect the natives resemble the Aryan Hindus, Greeks, and Romans, with whom Dyaus Pita, Zeus, and Jupiter equally represented the firmament.

Note.

The Tish and Gar use the words Nyankupon and Nyonmo to express sky, rain or thunder and lightning, and the Ewe and Yoruba the words Morn and Olorun to express the two former.