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Her name is a noun meaning "the act of giving" in Etruscan, based on the verb stem Tur-'to give.' Turmล, Turms: Etruscan god identified with Greek Hermes and Roman Mercurius. In his capacity as guide to the ghost of Tiresias, who has been summoned by Odysseus, he is Turms Aitas, "Turms Hades." [52] Turnu
After the Etruscan defeat in the Roman–Etruscan Wars (264 BCE), the remaining Etruscan culture began to be assimilated into the Roman. The Roman Senate adopted key elements of the Etruscan religion, which were perpetuated by haruspices and noble Roman families who claimed Etruscan descent, long after the general population of Etruria had forgotten the language.
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Etruscan gods (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Etruscan deities" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Like many other Etruscan deities, his name is gender neutral. [4] The Etruscans had a group of nine gods who had the power of hurling thunderbolts; they were called Novensiles by the Romans. [5] Of thunderbolts there were eleven sorts, of which Tinia wielded three. [5] Tinia was sometimes represented with a beard or sometimes as youthful and ...
Apulu (Etruscan: ๐๐๐๐๐), also syncopated as Aplu (Etruscan: ๐๐๐๐), is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god ลuri [3] [4] [1] [5] [6] as chthonic sky god, roughly equivalent to the Greco-Roman god Apollo. [7] [8] [9] Their names are associated on Pyrgi inscriptions too.
ลuri was essentially a chthonic solar deity: [b] the volcanic fire god of light and darkness, lord of the sun and the underworld, with powers over health and plague as well. [3] [4] [5] Furthermore, as god of volcanic lightning, he was considered to be among the Novensiles, the nine Etruscan thunder gods. [3] [5] [8] [9] He was also an ...
The name Turms is of distinctively Etruscan origin, like that of Fufluns but in contrast to deities such as Hercle and Aplu , whose names were borrowed from Greek. [ 7 ] Turms is known more from decoration on everyday objects, such as mirrors, than from cult images, [ 3 ] although one dedication has been taken to indicate the existence of a ...