Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "Aradia" | Italy / Etruscan | A Lunar deity |
Goddess name "Turan" | Etruscan | A goddess of love & the tutelary deity of Vulci |
God name "ADONIS (lord)" | Lebanon / Syria | Fertility and vegetation god. Adonis is modeled on the Mesopotamian dying vegetation god DUMUZI (Hebrew: Tammuz). He appears as a youthful deity. The river Adonis [Nahr Ibrahim] is sacred to him largely because its waters flow red after heavy Winter Rains, having become saturated with ferrous oxide. In Hellenic tradition he is the son of the mythical Cyprian king Cinyras and his mother is MYRRHA. According to Hesiod he is also the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea. He is the consort of APHRODITE. Tradition has it that he was killed by a boar during a hunting expedition and is condemned to the underworld for six months of each year, during which the earth's vegetation parches and dies under the summer Sun and drought. He was honored in a spring festival when priests in effeminate costume gashed themselves with knives. Frequently depicted nude and sometimes carrying a lyre. Also ATTIS (Phrygian); ATUNIS (Etruscan).... |
Goddess name "Turan" | Etruscan | Goddess of love and the tutelary deity of Vulci. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Turan" | Etruscan | Goddess of love. The tutelary deity of Vulci, she is depicted bearing wings and with attributes including a swan, a dove and a blossom.... |
God name "Veive" | Etruscan | Minor god. A youthful deity whose attributes include arrows. His animal is a goat.... |
God name "Summamus" | Etruscan | storm god. Specifically a deity responsible for lightning and thunderbolts. A sanctuary was dedicated to him in Rome.... |
Deity name "Atunis aka Atuns" | Etruscan | The Etruscan incarnation of the popular life-death-rebirth deity. He is a consort for Turan. Originally non-Etruscan, directly from Greek Adonis. Etruscan |
Supreme god name "Voltumna" | Etruscan | Tutelary god. Originally a vegetation deity who was elevated to the position of supreme god in the Etruscan pantheon and known in Roman culture as VERTUMNUS.... |
God name "Aplu" | Etruscan | weather god. No cult is identifiably addressed to this deity. He is depicted partly cloaked and wearing a laurel leaf, but otherwise naked. Attributes include a staff and laurel twig.... |