1. Dyau≠ Pitar and His Lost Mythology

Summary of correspondences

Loki	Amb#
is the long-standing enemy of Heimdall; Heimdall and Loki kill each other	is the sworn enemy of Bhī≠ma and is instrumental in killing him
notorious sex changer	changes sex
eats the heart of a woman burnt in a fire, somehow connected to the birth of ogresses	kills herself in a fire in order to be reborn as a man
takes refuge in a river after being thrown out of the company of the gods	half of her becomes a river
is the father of monsters and also the mother of a fabulous horse and other children(?)	her river is full of crocodiles; her name means “mother”
is the son of giantess and eventually fights on the gods on the side of evil in the final battle	is the incarnation of a R#k≠asa

Vedic Dyau≠ pitar, Greek Zeu= pa&ter, Latin Juppiter, Hittite Attaß Íiuß, Luwian Tatiß Tiwaz, Stymphaean Deipa&turoj, allow us to reconstruct Dyéu- P™ter- (most recently, Watkins 1995: 8). What were the mythological resonances of this name?