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Storm & Sky Gods

Thunder, lightning, and the right to rule.

The storm god is the king-archetype. He carries a weapon that throws lightning (a hammer, a vajra, a thunderbolt), he is loud, he is feared, and he is usually the head of the pantheon. Indo-European comparative mythology spent the last century mapping the lineage: Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, Indra and Perun all descend from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus, "shining sky father". The Semitic and Mesoamerican parallels (Baal, Tlaloc) are independent but converge on the same pattern.

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