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The name is either borrowed from the Roman god, Silvanus or the original source of the Roman god's name. [41] Sethlans: Etruscan blacksmith and craftsman god, often wielding an axe. Equivalent to the Greek Hephaistos and Roman Vulcanus. [41] Summanus: Etruscan god of nocturnal thunder, often said to be Zeus's twin or opposite. Εuri
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 ...
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Apulu (Etruscan: πππππ), also syncopated as Aplu (Etruscan: ππππ), is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god Εuri [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.
A notable mirror from Volterra depicts Uni nursing an adult demigod Hercle (the Greek Heracles or Roman Hercules). Tinia, amongst other gods present at the scene, points to a tablet with the inscription indicating the significance of the event: "eca: sren: tva: iχnac hercle:unial clan: θra:sce" meaning "this picture shows how Hercle became Uni's son". [6]
Manth (Etruscan: ππππ, romanized: Manth), latinized as Mantus, is an epithet of the Etruscan chthonic fire god Εuri [1] [2] [3] as god of the underworld; this name was primarily used in the Po Valley, as described by Servius, [4] but a dedication to the god manθ from the Archaic period was found in a sanctuary in Pontecagnano, Southern Italy.
Εuri 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 ...
In Etruscan mythology, Sethlans was the god of fire, the forge, metalworking, and by extension craftsmanship in general, the equivalent, though their names share no etymology, to Greek Hephaestus, Egyptian Ptah and the Roman Vulcan. Sethlans is one of the indigenous Etruscan gods.