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  2. Mythology of Italy - Wikipedia

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    Janus is the God of gateways, beginnings, and transitions, said to have 2 faces. One faces the past, and the other faces the future. Saturnus; Orcus; Luna is the Goddes of the Moon. Nox is the Goddess of the night, the beginning of all things, and one of the oldest of the Gods. Umbria is Goddess of shadows, secrets, darkness who lives in the ...

  3. List of night deities - Wikipedia

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    Astraeus, Titan god of the dusk, stars, planets, and the art of Astronomy and Astrology; Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and the stars; Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon

  4. Ataegina - Wikipedia

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    Italian linguist Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel argues for a Celtic etymology, from *atakī ('night'), from an earlier *at-ak-ī ('interval'). Thus, de Bernardo proposes, her name means "the one of the night". [16] In a later article, she describes Ataecina as "the goddess of the nighttime", and derives her name from *Atakī-nā 'the divine ...

  5. Diana (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Diana was not only regarded as a goddess of the wilderness and the hunt, but was often worshiped as a patroness of families. She served a similar function to the hearth goddess Vesta, and was sometimes considered to be a member of the Penates, the deities most often invoked in household rituals. In this role, she was often given a name ...

  6. Folklore of Italy - Wikipedia

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    The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. Today, Italy's folk music is often divided into several spheres of geographic influence, a classification system proposed by Alan Lomax in 1956 and often repeated since.

  7. Chaos gods - Wikipedia

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    Apep the ultimate evil of Egyptian mythology in snake form; Isfet chaos, disorder, and injustice - opposed to Maat; Nu (mythology) primordial waters Set (deity) was not originally evil, but developed into a hated figure thanks to the invading Hyksos who identified him with their chief god, fights Apep.

  8. The Three Mothers - Wikipedia

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    The Three Mothers (Italian: Le Tre madri) is a trilogy of supernatural horror films by Italian filmmaker Dario Argento. It consists of Suspiria , Inferno , and Mother of Tears . Each film deals with one of the titular "Mothers", a triumvirate of ancient witches who are determined to rule the world, [ 1 ] using their powerful magic to manipulate ...

  9. Śuri - Wikipedia

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    Śuri 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 ...