or gods of intoxicating drinks such as Dionysos . The name of Indra (Indara) is also mentioned among the gods of the Mitanni , a Hurrian speaking people who ruled northern Syria from ca.1500BC-1300BC . Janda (1998:221) suggests that the Proto-Indo-European (or Graeco-Aryan ) predecessor of Indra had the epithet *trigw-welumos