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The "piter" probably denotes fatherly protection, though it may have meant originally physical paternity.

Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

August 26th, 2005 at 9:49 pm piter wrote, among other stuff:

Role-Playing Idiocy: Six feet of what? 2005

How a conspiracie was sometyme emong the Goddes and Goddes, to binde the great God Iu - piter.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

We also find in Horace (Odes III. 2: 29) the archaic form of the word "Jupiter," _Diespiter_, which, according to Lassen (I. 755), means "Ruler of Heaven"; being derived from Djaus-piter.

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

Pythagorean system of the soul of the world, or Iou-piter.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

The epithet piter, or father, having been applied to the demi-ourgos of Plato, gave rise to an ambiguity which caused an enquiry to be made respecting the son of this father.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

If we suppose Deus to be derived from the Greek Zeus, a proper name of You-piter, having zaw, I live, for its root, its sense will be precisely that of you, and will mean soul of the world, igneous principle.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Religion of Moses, or Worship of the Soul of the World (You-piter).

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Yahouh, ** betrayed by its very name, essence (of beings), and by its symbol, the burning bush, is only the soul of the world, the moving principle which the Greeks soon after adopted under the same denomination in their you-piter, regenerating being, and under that of

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Hence the words of Virgil: "Muses let us begin with You-piter; the world is full of You-piter."

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788