Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 "Acaviser aka Achvizr" | Etruscan | Akhvizr, Akhuviztr, Goddess, one of the Lasas, the Etruscan Fate-Goddesses who include Alpan, Evan and Mean. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Acaviser/ Lasas" | Etruscan | A goddess, one of the fates |
Goddess name "Acca Larentia" | Etruscan | A mythical woman who occurs in the stories in early Roman history. Associated with Hercules she was a goddess of the earth and goddess of Winter Roman / Etruscan |
Goddess name "Albina" | Etruscan | Dawn goddess and protector of ill fated lovers. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Alpanu" | Etruscan | An underworld goddess |
Goddess name "Alpanu" | Etruscan | Chthonic underworld goddess. Depicted wearing jewels, a loose cloak and sandals but otherwise naked. Also arguably a goddess of sexual love.... |
Goddess name "Alpanu aka Alpan" | Etruscan | Goddess of love and one of the Lasas, and a ruler of the underworld. Possibly equated with the Greek goddess Persephone. In art, she was usually depicted as a nude or semi-nude winged maiden. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Altria" | Etruscan | Ancient goddess of the earth. Etruscan |
God name "Ani" | Etruscan | sky god. Identified as residing in the highest heaven and sometimes depicted with two faces, equating possibly with the Roman god JANUS.... |
Goddess name "Anna Perenna" | Etruscan | A goddess of reproduction, wanton love, & of spring |
God name "Apiu" | Etruscan | weather god Etruscan |
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.... |
God name "Apulu Later Aplu" | Etruscan | Sun god, often depicted in art with a staff and laurel branches. He was clearly derived from the Greek god Apollo. Etruscan |
God name "Atuiis" | Etruscan | God. Known from circa 350 BC onward in local inscriptions.See also ADONIS.... |
God name "Atunis" | Etruscan | A god similar to Adonis |
Goddess name "Aversa" | Etruscan | A goddess pictured carrying an ax |
Goddess name "Catha aka Cautha" | Etruscan | Goddess of the Sun who is sometimes shown as male and equated with the Greek Sun god Helios. Etruscan |