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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.' TurmΕ, Turms: Etruscan god identified with Greek Hermes and Roman Mercurius.
Wylin translates šelace vacal tmial (4–5) ... Etruscan mother goddess of fertility [cf. Latin IΕ«no] vacal, votive offering velianas, Velianas [family name].
Uni is the ancient goddess of marriage, fertility, family, and women in Etruscan religion and myth, and was the patron goddess of Perugia.She is identified as the Etruscan equivalent of Juno in Roman mythology, and Hera in Greek mythology. [1]
Catha (Etruscan: ππππ, romanized: Catha, also written πππ, Cath, πππππ, Cautha, or πππ ππ, Kavtha) is a female Etruscan lunar or solar deity, who may also be connected to childbirth, and has a connection to the underworld. [1] [2] Catha is also the goddess of the south sanctuary at Pyrgi, Italy. [1]
After the Etruscan defeat in the Roman–Etruscan Wars (264 BCE), the remaining Etruscan culture began to be assimilated into the Roman. The Roman Senate adopted key elements of the Etruscan religion, which were perpetuated by haruspices and noble Roman families who claimed Etruscan descent, long after the general population of Etruria had forgotten the language.
Menrva's name is indigenous to Italy and might even be of Etruscan origin, stemming from an Italic moon goddess, *MeneswΔ 'She who measures'. [9] It is thought that the Etruscans adopted the inherited Old Latin name, *MenerwΔ, thereby calling her Menrva. However, this has been disputed. [10]
The Etruscans seemed to quite like these stories and easily transferred them to their dawn goddess Thesan; the stories depicted on the mirrors are generally straight out of Greek myth. [3] Thesan, the goddess of the dawn, “,” is depicted abducting a younger mortal on several engraved Etruscan mirrors dated from 530 to 450 B.C., w
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