Jupiter, chief God of the Latins (the ancient Elysians), was an ancestral name and became the chief Latin diety. The Hebrews recorded him as the father of all Europeans, Japheth, who migrated away from Shinar to the "Isles of the Gentiles". The "er" suffix is a masculine indicator, more common in the Germanic tribes than the southern European ones. The names Jupiter and Japheth have etymological equivalency and the Latin name Japetto likely derives it's origin here. Further evidence of the Japheth origin is the placement of Jupiter in the Latin Pantheon. Jupiter is the son of Saturn, who is equivalent with the biblical Noah. Noah was known as Xisuthra in old Akkadian, which bears etymological similarity to Saturn. As Jupiter is the son of Saturn, the flood survivor, so the Hebrews recorded that Noah's eldest son was Japheth, and that he peopled Europe. The Hebrew texts record Japheth having a son Javan (Ivan), who fathered the southern European tribes, with his son Elisha, begetting the Elysians, an Archaic name for Latins.