Gebeleizis
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Gebeleizis was a god worshiped by the Getae, whose name has been interpreted as a theonym for the Indo-European sky and weather god, evidently also called by the Thracians with a symilar theonym – Zibelthiurdos or Zbelsurdos.[1][2] In ancient literature he is mentioned only by Herodotus.[2]
Gebeleizis was represented as a handsome man, sometimes wearing a beard. The lightning and thunder were his manifestations. According to Herodotus, some Getae equated Gebeleizis with Zalmoxis as the same god.
Name
[edit | edit source]The name of the god can be deduced from the Proto-Slavic *gybělь, with meaning disaster, destruction, ruin, devastation, perdition, doom.
See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Tomashek, Die Alten Thraker, II, page 62
- ^ a b Eliade 1970, pp. 58–60.
Bibliography
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