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Calydonian Boar Hunt
The Calydonian Boar Hunt was the most famous of all myths about hunting. This is because many of the famous Greek heroes took part in it, although ...
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Voltumna
God of vegetation. Voltumna was identified with the Roman god Vertumnus. Voltumna was also a tutelary deity of the Volsinii, and the god had a temp...
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Uni
Goddess of love and marriage. Uni was the consort of the sky god Tin. Uni was identified with the Roman goddess Juno, as well as with Thalna. Uni w...
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Turms
Like the Greek god Hermes and the Roman god Mercury, Turms was the messenger of the gods and the conductor of the souls of the dead to the Underwor...
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Turan
Goddess of love. Turan was identified with the Roman goddess of love, Venus. She was a tutelary goddess of Vulci. Her sacred birds were a white swa...
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Tin
Sky god. Tin or Tinia was identified with both the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus, and he wielded thunderbolts. His consort was Uni, and they for...
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Thesan
Goddess of dawn. Thesan was also the goddess of childbirth, since her name was often invoked at childbirth.
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Thalna
Goddess of childbirth. Thalna was associated with the sky god, Tin. She was always depicted as a young woman.
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Summamus
Storm god. Like the sky god Tin, Summamus wielded thunderbolts and lightning. He had a sanctuary at Rome.
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Nortia
Goddess of fate. Nortia has been identified with the Greek goddess of luck, Tyche. Nortia had a sanctuary at Volsini. Her symbol was a large nail. ...
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Menrva
Goddess of art and war. The Roman goddess Minerva was probably derived from Menrva. Many of Menrva's attributes were derived from Athena, but she w...
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