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Etruscan goddess identified with Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus. She appears in the expression, Turan ati, "Mother Turan", equivalent to Venus Genetrix. [52] Her name is a noun meaning "the act of giving" in Etruscan, based on the verb stem Tur-'to give.' Turmś, Turms: Etruscan god identified with Greek Hermes and Roman Mercurius.
The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth , is central to the human experience.
In ancient Etruscan and Roman mythology, Mania (Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌌), also spelled Manea, was a goddess of the dead, spirits and chaos: she was said to be the mother of ghosts, the undead, and other spirits of the night, as well as the Lares and the Manes.
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Vanth is a female entity in the Etruscan underworld that is often accompanied either by additional Vanth figures or by another underworld entity, Charun (later referred to as Charu). Both Vanth and Charun are only seen in iconography beginning c. 400 BC, in the middle period of Etruscan art, although some earlier inscriptions mention her name. [2]
Greek death goddesses (3 C, 8 P) L. Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (7 C, 20 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death ...
Etruscan goddesses (19 P) Etruscan gods (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Etruscan deities" ... Etruscan death deities; D. Dii involuti; N. Novensiles; T. Tuchulcha
Libitina, also Libentina or Lubentina, is an ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial. Her name was used as a metonymy for death, [1] and undertakers were known as libitinarii. [2] Libitina was associated with Venus, and the name appears in some authors as an epithet of Venus. [3]