Mycenaean di-wi-ja/di-u-ja and her cult and religious influence on the greek world of the first millennium: ΔΙϜΙΑ-Δία
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https://doi.org/10.53439/revitin.2025.2.09Keywords:
Mycenae, di-wi-ja, di-u-ja, di-wo, di-weAbstract
The Mycenaean goddess di-wi-ja has a truly archaic occurrence in the chronology of de tablets, between 1500 and 1400 BC. From the point of view of the dating of the documents, his name and cult predate di-wo/di-we -or are at least contemporaries-, a theonym considered by mycenologists as a direct antecedent of the epic Zeus. In the present study we show through morpho-syntactic analysis the importance of her cult among the Mycenaeans and the strong semantic influence of the root that forms her theonym to the extent that, as can be recovered from very ancient strata of the story, it was forcibly displaced towards the figure of the male divinity. This has caused the goddess to practically disappear in the first millennium, although morpho-historical and morpho-semantic tracing refloats the weight of her archaic representation. The results of this research open a different horizon of analysis that touches even the firmest layers of Mycenaean grammar.
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