Polytheistic peoples from many cultures have postulated athunder deity, the creator or personification of the forces ofthunder andlightning; a lightning god does not have a typical depiction and will vary based on the culture.
In Indo-European cultures, the thunder god is frequently depicted as male and known as the chief orKing of the Gods, e.g.:Indra inHinduism,Zeus inGreek mythology,Zojz inAlbanian mythology, andPerun in ancientSlavic religion.
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The Hindu God Indra was the chief deity and at his prime during theVedic period, where he was considered to be the supreme God.[21][22] Indra was initially recorded in theRigveda, the first of the religious scriptures that comprise theVedas.[23] Indra continued to play a prominent role throughout the evolution of Hinduism and played a pivotal role in the two Sanskrit epics that comprise theItihasas, appearing in both theRamayana andMahabharata. Although the importance of Indra has since been subsided in favor of other Gods in contemporary Hinduism, he is still venerated and worshipped.
InGreek mythology, theElysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, was the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous, evolved from a designation of a place or personstruck by lightning,enelysion, enelysios.[24] This could be a reference toZeus, the god of lightning, so "lightning-struck" could be saying that the person was blessed (struck) by Zeus (/lightning/fortune). EgyptologistJan Assmann has also suggested that GreekElysion may have instead been derived from theEgyptian termialu (olderiaru), meaning "reeds," with specific reference to the "Reed fields" (Egyptian:sekhet iaru /ialu), a paradisiacal land of plenty where the dead hoped to spend eternity.[25]
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