| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Juno, Minerva, Tinia , Vulcan, Mars, Saturn, Hercules, Summauus, Vedius" | Etruscan | Nine Gods Of the Etruscans: Juno, Minerva, and Tinia (the three chief); the other six were Vulcan, Mars, and Saturn, Hercules, Summauus, and Vedius. |
| Deities name "Kabeiroi" | Greek | Blacksmith gods. According to tradition the sons or grandsons of the blacksmith god HEPHAISTOS. The cult was centered particularly on Lemnos, where there was an Etruscan tradition until circa 500 BC, and at Thebes. The Kabeiroi are thought to derive from pre-Greek Asian fertility deities in Anatolia [Turkey].... |
| God name "Laran" | Etruscan | God of war Etruscan |
| God name "Laran" | Etruscan | God of war. Depicted as a youth armed with a lance and helmet and dressed in a cape.... |
| God name "Lasas" | Etruscan | These are female god like beings of the pantheon, they may be winged or unwinged & some names are known |
| God name "Lasas" | Etruscan | Female godlike beings of the pantheon, they may be winged or unwinged and some names are known Etruscan |
"Mania" | Etruscan | An ancient and formidable Italian, probably Etruscan, divinity of the lower world, is called the mother of the Manes or Lares |
| Spirit name "Mania" | Etruscan | An ancient and formidable Italian, probably Etruscan, divinity of the lower world, is called the mother of the Manes or Lares. As regards her being the mother of the Manes or Lares, the idea seems to have been, that the souls of the departed on their arrival in the lower world became her children, and either there dwelt with her or ascended into the upper world as beneficent spirits. |
| Goddess name "Marica" | Etruscan | Goddess of Agriculture. Etruscan |
| Goddess name "Menrva" | Etruscan | Spiting image of the Greek goddess Athena in all aspects Etruscan |
| Goddess name "Menrva/ Menerva" | Etruscan | A spiting image of the Greek goddess Athena in all aspects |
| King name "Mezentius" | Greek | A mythical king of the Tyrrhenians or Etruscans, at Caere or Agylla, and father of Lausus. When he was expelled by his subjects on account of his cruelty he took refuge with Turnus, king of the Rutulians, and åśśisted him in his war against Aeneas and the Trojans. Greek |
| Goddess name "Minerva" | Greek | The name Minerva is connected with the root man as or mens. She first appeared in Etruria under the names of Minrva, Menrfa, Menervra. Menarv, and was perhaps a goddess of the thunderbolt. It seems that this Etruscan Minerva very early merged with the Greek Athene. Minerva is hence the least ltalic of the divinities with whom she formed the triad Jupiter-Juno-Minerva. Greek |
| Demon name "Nathum" | Etruscan | An underworld demon or fury. Etruscan |
| God name "Nethu s" | Etruscan | God of fresh water. Identified with wells and springs and depicted as a naked bearded figure. He is probably to be equated with the Roman god NEPTUNUS.... |
| God name "Nethuns" | Etruscan | God of wells and of all water, including the sea. He was the same as the Greek Poseidon and Roman Neptune. Etruscan |
| King name "Nortia" | Etruscan | An Etruscan divinity, who was worshipped at Volsinii, where a nail was driven every year into the wall of her temple, for the purpose of marking the number of years. |
| Goddess name "Nortia" | Etruscan | Goddess of fate. She enjoyed an important sanctuary at Volsini, where her presence was symbolized by a large nail. In a New Year rite, the nail was hammered into a block of wood, probably derived from an old fertility ritual symbolizing the impregnation of life into the new year. She has been identified with the Greek goddess TYCHE.... |
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