Deipaturos
Deipaturos was an Illyrian deity worshiped in the region of Tymphaea as the Sky Father.Description
Dei-pátrous was recorded by the Greek grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria, in an entry of his lexicon named Δειπάτυροϛ θεὸϛ παρὰ Στυμϕαίοιϛ. Deipaturos was worshiped as the Sky Father, a linguistic cognate of the Vedic Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́, Greek Zeus Patēr and Roman Jupiter. The region of Tymphaea was inhabited by an ancient Illyrian population that may have influenced the Greek Doric form copied by Hesychius as Δειπάτυροϛ.
According to Martin L. West, "the formal parallelism between the names of the Illyrian Deipaturos and the Messapic Damatura may favour their having been a pair, but evidence of the liaison is lacking."Citations
