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The gods of the Etruscans

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The gods of the Etruscans

This group gathers the deities of the Etruscans, the civilisation of pre-Roman central Italy whose language is only partly understood. Etruscan religion was known in antiquity for its elaborate divination, the reading of livers, lightning and bird-flight, and much of what survives comes through Roman writers who admired and borrowed it.

The browser will find Tinia, the sky-god equivalent to Jupiter; Uni and Menrva, who with Tinia formed a triad the Romans echoed; the wine-god Fufluns; and the underworld figures of Etruscan tomb painting. The atlas notes that the pantheon is reconstructed from inscriptions, art and Roman testimony, and that Etruscan and Roman religion deeply influenced each other.

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