Hebeleisis

Gebeleisis (Gebeleїzis, Gebelexis) - the god of the thunderstorm at the Dacians . Herodotus identified him with Zalmoxis .

It is believed that his name comes from the Indo-European root * g'heib (light, lightning). Most likely, at the initial stage of the history of the Dacians, there were two different cults, and later the cults of the two gods merged.

In 1935, P. Kretschmer made a linguistic analysis, which showed that “Zemelo” (from Greco-Phrygian tombstones in Asia Minor), the Thracian “Zemelen” (earth) and Semele (goddess of the Earth, mother of Dionysus) go back to the single “g'hemel” "-" land, soil belonging to the land "(compare Avestan" zam ", land, Lithuanian" zeme ", Latvian" zeme ", Old Prussian" sama "," semme ", Old Slavic" zemlja ", land, country. Next, Kretchmer based on Herodotus' message, he tried to link Zalmoxis with gebeleizis and assumed gebeleizis - Thracian name, and Zalmoxis - Scythian-suit yskoe name hybrid of the same god This etymology Kretchmera was criticized by Rousseau and other scientists, however, it is clear that.. Geth . (Daco - Getae) believe in one God, called one Zalmoxis and other gebeleizis assumed that Gebeleisis went through a well-known evolution: from a heavenly god such as Dyaus, he turned into a god of storm, and then into a god of fertility like Zeus or Baal ^[1] .