The religion of the Indo-Europeans

Apart from "Father Heaven" (*d (i) under tilde(e) over bar(u) under tildes pH(2)t (e) over barr), the "Dawn" (*H(2)a (u) under tildes (o) over bars) and the Sun-god (derivations from *saH(2)(u) under tildel), the names of PIE gods had been replaced in the single cultures by former epithets: a god of ecstasy and poetry who created the dynamic world by slaughtering the dragon lives on in Indra and Dionysos. Hades and Varupa are descendants of a god of the netherworld who annually rapes the Dawn (in Greece also called Persephone, Aphrodite, and Helena). The milky way is represented by Mitra and Hermes and by Sarasvati and Hera. The conception of Ved. svarga, Av.x(v)aranah-, and Gk. (omicron$) over cap lambda beta omicron sigma shows us the Neolithic belief in a celestial immortality.