Etruscan religion

It is marked with the name of regions assigned to various deities of Etruscan religion.

Van der Meer is a leading authority on Etruscan religion.

The origins of Orcus may have lain in Etruscan religion.

Etruscan art was often religious in character and, hence, strongly connected to the requirements of Etruscan religion.

In Etruscan religion, he is identified with Sethlans.

Rome's early myths and legends also have a dynamic relationship with Etruscan religion, less documented than that of the Greeks.

In Etruscan religion and myth, Thalna was a divine figure usually regarded as a goddess of childbirth.

It is believed that Roman Law is rooted in the Etruscan religion, emphasising ritual.

Stregheria is an Italian based form of Witchcraft, claimed to be rooted in Etruscan religion.

Etruscan religion was also a major influence, particularly on the practice of augury, since Rome had once been ruled by Etruscan kings.

Much of Etruscan religion and mythology became part of classical Roman culture, including the Roman pantheon.

The collective body of knowledge pertaining to the doctrine, ritual practices, laws, and science of Etruscan religion and cosmology was known as the disciplina Etrusca.

Etruscan religion influenced that of the Romans, and many of the few surviving Etruscan language artifacts are of votive or religious significance.

The Etruscan gods were hostile and tended to bring misfortune, and so Etruscan religion was centered on interpreting their will and accepting or satisfying it.

Tages was a founding prophet of Etruscan religion who is known from reports by Latin authors of the late Roman republic and Roman empire.

Cornelius Labeo was an ancient Roman theologian and antiquarian who wrote on such topics as the Roman calendar and the teachings of Etruscan religion (Etrusca disciplina).

Grimassi describes the roots of Stregheria as a syncretic offshoot of Etruscan religion that later blended with "Tuscan peasant religion", medieval Christian heresy, and veneration of saints.

In Etruscan religion and myth, Hercle (also Heracle or Hercl) was a form of the Greek Heracles, depicted as a muscular figure often carrying a club and wearing a lionskin.

Stregheria is an Italian witchcraft religion popularised in the 1980s by Raven Grimassi, who claims that it evolved within the ancient Etruscan religion of Italian peasants who worked under the Catholic upper classes.

Thus, one important effect of the Sibylline Books was their influence on applying Greek cult practice and Greek conceptions of deities to indigenous Roman religion, which was already indirectly influenced through Etruscan religion.

Stregheria has both similarities and differences with Wicca, and in some ways resembles reconstructionist Neopaganism focussed on a specific nation or culture (in this case the folk religion of medieval Italy, allegedly containing traditions derived from Etruscan religion).

It has also been noted that as late as the fifth century A.D., priests familiar with Etruscan religion were called in to offer an explanation, perhaps through a reading of sheep entrails, for the sack of Rome at the hands of barbarians.

As for Etruscan religion N. Thomas De Grummond has suggested to identify Sancus in the inscription Selvans Sanchuneta found on a cippus unearthed near Bolsena, however other scholars connect this epithet to a local family gentilicium.

The Etruscan religion was an immanent polytheism, in which all visible phenomena were considered to be a manifestation of divine power, and deities continually acted in the world of men and could, by human action or inaction, be dissuaded against or persuaded in favor of human affairs.