Turan (deity)

Candlestick with the goddess Turan and eight doves ( Etruscan , around 550-450 BC)

Turan ( Etruscan "mistress, lady") was a fertility and protective goddess (sky goddess) of the city of Vulci among the Etruscans in northern central Italy . The goddess is represented with wings, her attributes are the swan and the dove . In her company are the outwardly similar Lasen . Turan's retinue also includes Atunis ( Adonis ).

Turan had a son, Turnu, who is equated with the Greek god of love Eros .

In the Etruscan calendar , the month of Turane (July) was named after her.

The name Turan is derived from the Etruscan verb tur- "to give" after the German Etruscologist Friedhelm Prayon and has been used since the 7th century BC. Known goddess of love , fertility and beauty. She is also attested as a cult goddess in a port sanctuary in the city of Gravisca . Turan, together with the Greek goddess Aphrodite , the Oscar - Umbrian Herentas, the Carthaginian Tanit and local Samnite-Campanian early cults had a decisive influence on the development of the numerous, complex and syncretistic cults of Roman Venus . Turan (like Aphrodite) was often identified by the Romans directly with one of the many Venus deities.

literature

Erika Simon : Gods and Demons of the Etruscans. Lecture from 1980. In: Same: Writings on Etruscan and Italian art and religion. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06941-0 , pp. 13-26 ( reading sample in the Google book search).
Erika Simon: Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon. In: Same, Nancy Thomson de Grummond (ed.): The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, Austin 2006, ISBN 0-292-70687-1 , pp. 45–65 (English; reading excerpt from p. 55 in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Turan - Pictures and Media Files

Individual evidence

↑ Erika Simon : Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon. In: Same, Nancy Thomson de Grummond (ed.): The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, Austin 2006, ISBN 0-292-70687-1 , pp. 45–65, here p. 60 (English; side view in Google book search).
↑ Erika Simon: Gods and Demons of the Etruscans. Lecture from 1980. In: Same: Writings on Etruscan and Italian art and religion. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06941-0 , pp. 13–26, here p. 22 ( side view in the Google book search).
^ Friedhelm Prayon : Turan. In: The Etruscans. History, religion, art. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-41040-5 , p. 75 ( side view in the Google book search).

[1] Erika Simon : Gods in Harmony: The Etruscan Pantheon. In: Same, Nancy Thomson de Grummond (ed.): The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, Austin 2006, ISBN 0-292-70687-1 , pp. 45–65, here p. 60 (English; side view in Google book search).

[2] Erika Simon: Gods and Demons of the Etruscans. Lecture from 1980. In: Same: Writings on Etruscan and Italian art and religion. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06941-0 , pp. 13–26, here p. 22 ( side view in the Google book search).

[3] Friedhelm Prayon : Turan. In: The Etruscans. History, religion, art. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-41040-5 , p. 75 ( side view in the Google book search).