Gebeleizis

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.[1][2] In ancient literature he is mentioned only by Herodotus.[2]

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.

  1. ^ Tomashek, Die Alten Thraker, II, page 62
  2. ^ a b Eliade 1970, pp. 58–60.