Lithuanian Dievas, Latvian Dievs and Debestēvs ("Sky-Father"),[1] Latgalian Dīvs, Old Prussian Diews, Yotvingian Deivas[2][3] was the primordial supreme god in the Baltic mythology, one of the most important deities together with Perkūnas, and the brother of Potrimpo.
Dievas is a direct successor of the Proto-Indo-European supreme sky father god *Dyēus of the root *deiwo-.
[5] The celestial aspect is still apparent in phrases such as Saule noiet dievā ("The sun goes down to god"),[10] from Latvian folksongs.
And, in spite of being subsequently criticized that his sources were unreliable, and that his interpretations did not always concur with evident data from Lithuanian folklore, Narbutt's mythology was presented in a pictorial and detailed way.
The word Dievas itself seems to be omitted respectfully or changed to its epithets in Lithuanian: Aukštojas ("The High One") Aukščiausiasis ('the Highest'), Visagalis ('the Omnipotent'), Praamžis ('the Eternal one') or Pondzejis[5] ('Lord God') and in Prussian as Occopirmzts.
[Note: in terms of the Lithuanian conception of supreme sky divinity reference can be made to the sun goddess Saule for whom there is a vast corpus of popular lore, ref.