Nortia

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Nortia is an Etruscan goddess.

Probably the idea of ​​Nortia corresponded roughly to the idea of Fortuna , the Roman goddess of luck . Benjamin Hederich , however, equates her with Pomona . Nortia probably didn't have a cult of her own in Rome, but every year a nail was driven into her temple in Volsinii . The same custom existed in Rome; Here, on the Ides of September, a nail was driven into the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, as Livy reports. The historian thinks that this custom represents a kind of calendar; Today, however, it is more likely that the nails were not used to count the year, but had an apotropaic effect.

On Nortia's work as the goddess of happiness, cf. Martianus Capella 1, 88 and Schol. Iuv. 10.74; Varro writes about the cult that does not exist in Rome. apol. 24.

In the Tuscan sagas, Nortia lives on as the goblin of Norcia.

literature

  • Nancy T. De Grummond: Etruscan myth, sacred history and legend . University Press, Philadelphia 2006, ISBN 1-931707-86-3 .