Lecture 7: Etruscan Religion
A. The Most Religious of Ancient Peoples- Livy
B. The Athrpa Mirror- Hellenistic Period, from Perugia, now in Berlin
1. Turan, lover of Atune
2. The inevitability of fate- the nail of fate
a. Temple of Fortuna at Volsinii- cella nail
b. Saeculum
3. Atlenta and Meliacr= Atalanta and Meleager
4. Athrpa/Atropos- destiny gives mother of Meleager the wooden log
5. ca.320 B.C.
C. Piacenza Liver- found 1877 in Po Valley
1. Usils the sun god
2. 16 divisions of the heavens
3. Lightning, manubia controlled by the 6
4. 1=warning, 2=terrifying good omen, 3=destruction
5. Di Consentes
6. Haruspex consults Disciplina Etrusca
7. Thunder on left of God good
D. Disciplina Etrusca
1. Saeculum
2. Tages, grandson of Tinia and son of a genius
3. Lucumones
4. Sanctification of space- 4 regions of heaven, Tinia and Veiovis
5. Augur- alites, oscines, auspices, pullareus, epilepsy, 2 headed calves
6. Icthyomancy