• In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna or Veltha was the chthonic (relating to or inhabiting the underworld) deity, who became the supreme god of the Etruscan...
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    was held 13 August. The name Vortumnus most likely derives from Etruscan Voltumna. Its formation in Latin was probably influenced by the Latin verb vertere...
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  • Binomial name Cosmosoma achemon (Fabricius, 1781) Synonyms Zygaena achemon Fabricius, 1781 Euchromia tyrrhene Hübner, 1824 Cosmosoma voltumna Druce, 1897...
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    in Etruscan art. One appears to be divinities of an indigenous origin: Voltumna or Vertumnus, a primordial, chthonic god; Usil, god(-dess) of the sun;...
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  • to Livy the leading men of all of Etruria gathered at the sanctuary of Voltumna to form an alliance against Rome. Beset by dangers on all sides, the Romans...
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    storms, chaos, darkness" Uranus Caelus Nut El Asman sky, heavens Vertumnus Voltumna Baal the seasons; change Zephyr Favonius West Wind; Favonius: lit. favorable...
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  • Vetus in Asia Minor in 75 BC. Some scholars think that Vortumnus (Etruscan Voltumna) was brought by evocation to Rome in 264 BC as a result of M. Fulvius Flaccus's...
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  • The Fanum Voltumnae (‘shrine of Voltumna’) was the chief sanctuary of the Etruscans; fanum means a sacred place, a much broader notion than a single temple...
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  • of the Etruscan league of Etruria, the Voltumna in the Latin expression Fanum Voltumnae, "shrine of Voltumna", which was their meeting place, believed...
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  • Etruscan veltha, an earth god, appears as Latin Vola or Olta and is in Voltumna and Vertumnus, so the parallel construction autumnus ought to come from...
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