Zibelthiurdos

A Thracian sky, storm and lightning god known chiefly from inscribed votive altars and reliefs showing him bearded and armed with a raised thunderbolt, often with an eagle at his side, an image close enough to the standard Greek iconography of Zeus that ancient viewers readily equated the two. His name, generally parsed as a root for lightning joined to a root for throwing or hurling, is recorded directly on stone monuments in variant spellings including Zbelsurdos and Zbelthurdos. The one ancient literary reference to him is a single line of Cicero's oration In Pisonem, delivered in 55 BCE, which names him under the Latinized gloss Jupiter Urius rather than his own Thracian name, evidence the identification with the Greco-Roman sky father was already standard well before the Roman conquest of Thrace was complete. No connected myth or narrative account of him survives in any source.