Gebeleizis
{{Short description|Getae god}}
Gebeleizis was a god worshiped by the Getae, whose name has been interpreted as a theonym for the Indo-European sky and weather god, evidently also called by the Thracians with a symilar theonym – Zibelthiurdos or Zbelsurdos.Tomashek, Die Alten Thraker, II, page 62{{sfn|Eliade|1970|pp=58–60}} In ancient literature he is mentioned only by Herodotus.{{sfn|Eliade|1970|pp=58–60}}
Gebeleizis was represented as a handsome man, sometimes wearing a beard. The lightning and thunder were his manifestations. According to Herodotus, some Getae equated Gebeleizis with Zalmoxis as the same god.
Name
The name of the god can be deduced from the Proto-Slavic *gybělь, with meaning disaster, destruction, ruin, devastation, perdition, doom.
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Eliade|first=Mircea|author-link=Mircea Eliade|title=De Zalmoxis à Gengis-Khan: études comparatives sur les religions et le folklore de la Dacie et de l'Europe orientale|publisher=Payot|year=1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m14AAAAAMAAJ}}
- {{cite book|last=Treimer|first=Karl|editor1=Henrik Barić |title=Arhiv za Arbanasku starinu, jezik i etnologiju|volume=I|chapter=Zur Rückerschliessung der illyrischen Götterwelt und ihre Bedeutung für die südslawische Philologie|pages=27–33|publisher=R. Trofenik|year=1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTIBAAAAMAAJ}}
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