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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Underworld

Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Beralku Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Ereshkigal Nergal Underworld - Babylonian mythology. Kurnugia Underworld - Buddhist mythology. Naraka (also Neraka) Underworld - Celtic mythology. Annwn Mag Mell ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia II - Underworld - Underworlds Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Beralku Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Ereshkigal Nergal Underworld - Aztec mythology. Mictlan Underworld - Babylonian mythology. Kurnugia Underworld - Buddhist mythology. Naraka (also Neraka) Underworld - Celtic mythology. Annwn Mag Mell Underworld - Chinese myt ...

Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia II - Underworld - Rulers of the Underworld

(Note: this includes guardian-type creatures, ghosts, and spirits such as demons, veli, and Cerberus) Underworld - Aboriginal mythology. Baiame (Kamilaroi) Eingana Underworld - Akkadian mythology. Allu Anu Anunnaku Ereshkigal Etemmu Gallu Humbaba Mamitu Nergal Utnapishtim Underworld - Albanian mythology. E Bukura e Dheut Underworld - Arm ...

Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Voltumna

In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna was the chthonic (earth) god, later to become the supreme god. He was the patron of the Etruscan race. His cult was centered in Volsini. He was the equivalent of the Roman Vertumnus. Other related archivesEtruscan mythology, Etruscan race, Roman, Vertumnus

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Charun

In Etruscan mythology, Charun was a demon who tortured dead souls in the underworld, as well as the guardian of the entrance to the underworld. He is the Etruscan equivalent of Charon in Greek mythology. He was depicted as having a vulture's nose, pointed ears and wings. He killed people with a hammer. Other related archivesCharon, Etruscan mythology, Greek mythology, demon, hammer, underworld, vulture

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Artume

In Etruscan mythology, Artume or Aritimi was the goddess of night, the moon and death, as well as nature, forests and fertility. She was associated with the Greek Artemis. Other related archivesArtemis, Etruscan mythology, Greek, death, fertility, forests, moon, nature, night

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Culsu

In Etruscan mythology, Culsu was a female demon in the underworld. Her attributes included a torch and scissors. She was associated with gateways. She was often represented next to Culsans. Other related archivesCulsans, Etruscan mythology, demon, gateways, scissors, torch, underworld

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Aplu

In Etruscan mythology, Aplu was a thunder and lightning god. In art, he was associated with a staff and laurel branches and was clearly derived from the Greek Apollo. ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Tarchon

In Etruscan mythology, Tarchon and his brother, Tyrrhenus were culture heroes who founded the Etruscan Federation of twelve cities. Ancient/Modern Arretium/Arezzo Caere/Cerveteri Clusium/Chiusi Faesulae/Fiesole Perusia/Perugia Populonia Rusellae/Roselle Tarquinii/Tarquinia-Corneto (named after Tarchon) Vetulonia Volaterrae/Volterra Volsinii/Bolsenae Vulci/Volci In the Aeneid, Tarchon leads the Etruscans in their alliance with Aene ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Lasa

Lasa. Lasa is a small village in the province of Basse-Navarre, in the South part of France. In Etruscan mythology, the Lasa (plural Lasas) were gods and goddesses who accompanied Turan, the god of love. Another spelling of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Other related archivesBasse-Navarre, Etruscan mythology, Lasa, Lhasa, Tibet, Turan

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Vesta mythology

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Vanth

In Etruscan mythology, Vanth was a demoness who lived in the underworld. She had eyed wings and was omniscient. She was the herald of death, assisted ill people on their deathbeds and inhaled good demons. In later times she represented Justice. In art, she was depicted with snakes, torches and keys. Category: Etruscan demons ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Roman religion

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Cloacina

In Roman mythology, Cloacina ("sewer") was the goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima, the system of sewers in Rome. Titus Tacitus, who reigned with Romulus, erected a statue to her. She was originally derived from Etruscan mythology, where she was a protector of sexual intercourse in marriage. The Cloacae were sewers begun by Tarquin the Elder and finished by Tarquin the Proud. Because a statue of Venus was found in the cloacae, some have speculated that the Romans adapted the Etruscan goddess to a personality of Venus.

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Greek mythology

Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. Our surviving sources of mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition, supplemented by interpretations of iconic imagery, sometimes modern ones, sometimes ancient ones, as myth was a means for later Greeks themselves to throw light on cult practices and traditions that were no longer explicable. The historian must sometimes deduce from hints in imagery, such as in ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Alpan

In Etruscan mythology, Alpan (also known as Apanu) was a goddess of love and one of the Lasas. She was also ruler of the Underworld. She might be equated with the Greek goddess Persephone. In art, she was usually depicted nude or semi-nude, with wings. Other related archivesEtruscan mythology, Greek goddess, Lasas, Persephone, art, wings

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Catamite

A catamite was the younger partner in a pederastic relationship between two males in the ancient world, especially Ancient Rome. The word is derived from the Latin catamitus, itself borrowed from the Etruscan catmite, a corruption of the Greek Ganymedes, the boy who was seduced by Zeus and became his beloved and cupbearer in Greek mythology. Other related archivesGanymedes, Ancient Rome, Etruscan, Greek, Greek mythology, Latin, Zeus, pederastic

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Artemis

In Greek mythology Artemis (World Book «AHR tuh mihs») (Greek Άρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In later times she was conflated with the goddess Diana of Roman mythology. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume. Artemis - Worship. She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth. She was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in many places since, according to some myths, s ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Apollo

Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. In later times he became in part confused or equated with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon in religious contexts. But Apollo and Helios/Sol remained quite separate beings in literary/mythological texts. In Etruscan mythology, he was know ...

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Etruscan mythology: Encyclopedia - Ares

In Greek mythology, Ares ("battle strife"; in Greek, Áρης), is the god of war and before battle people worshipped him. The Romans identified Mars, the god of war (whom they had inherited from the Etruscans) with Hellenic Ares, but among them, Mars stood in much higher esteem. Among the Hellenes, Ares was always mistrusted: His birthplace and true home was placed afar off, among the barbarous and warlike Thracians (IliadIncluding:

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