The Rites of Strega

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    The Gods of Strega

    AGENORIA - Etruscan Goddess to arouse action

    ANTEROS - God of passion

    APLU - Etruscan weather god

    ASTREA - Goddess of justice

    BELCHANS - Etruscan god of fire

    CARMEN/CARMINA - Goddess of the casting of spells and of enchantments

    CAUTHA - Etruscan Sun God; he is depicted rising from the sea

    CLOACINA - Etruscan Goddess of Sewers and Filth; also the protector of sexual intercourse in marriage

    CHARUN - Etruscan God of the Underworld; his function was to lead the dead to the Underworld to enjoy a happy afterlife

    COMUS - God of revelry, feasting and drinking

    CORVUS - Messenger of the GodsELSWET.COM

    COPIA - Goddess of wealth and plenty

    DIANA - The Triad goddess: Maiden, Mother & Crone, the goddess of all witches (remember that 'Diana' is a name associated with the goddess in several traditions, places and times. There are many variations and faces of 'Diana')

    DIANUS - Nature God of fertility, Horned God of the Woods, consort of Diana

    EGERIA - Etruscan Goddess of Fountains, she possessed the gift of prophecy

    EGESTA - Sicillian Goddess of Grain

    FANA - Goddess of the Earth , forests wildlife and of fertility

    FAUNUS - Etruscan nature god of the forest, wildlife and of fertility

    FEBRUUS - Etruscan God of purification, initiation and of the dead

    FELICITAS - Etruscan Goddess of Good Luck

    FERONIA - Etruscan Goddess who protects freedmen; she made her home in woodlands or at the foot of mountains.

    FORTUNA - Goddess of fortune, fate, blessing, luck and fertility

    FUFLUNS - Etruscan God of wine, vegetation, vitality and gaiety

    FURINA - Etruscan Goddess of darkness and robbers

    GIUNONE - Goddess of childbirth; also jealous and haughty

    HORTA - Etruscan Goddess of Agriculture

    HYBLA or HYBLAEA - Sicillian Earth Goddess

    IBLA - Sicillian Godess of beauty, love and fertility

    JANA - Goddess of the Moon

    JANUS or GIANO - Etruscan God of the Sun and of all beginnnings, portals, doorways and threshholds; associated with journeys

    LALAL - Etruscan Moon Godddess

    LARAN - Etruscan God of War; depicted as a youth armed with a lance and helmet and wearing a cape

    LOSNA - Etruscan Moon Goddess

    LUPERCUS - God of agriculture, the Wolf God

    MENRVA - Etruscan Goddess of Wisdom and the Arts

    MLUKUKH - Etrtuscan Goddess of Love

    MUNTHUKH - Etruscan Goddess of Health

    MURCIDA - Etruscan Goddess to make a person extremely inactive

    NETHUNS - Etruscan God of Fresh Water; identified with wells and springs and depicted as a naked and bearded figure

    NORTIA - Etruscan Goddess of Healing and Fate

    NOX - Goddess of the Night

    PERTUNDA - Goddess of sexual love and pleasure

    PICUS - Etruscan Woodland God; agricultural deity associated with the fertilization of the soil with manure

    SENTINUS - Etruscan God who gives sensibility

    STRENIA - Etruscan Goddess to make man especially strenuous

    SUMMAMUS - Etruscan Storm God; he is responsible for lightening and thunderbolts

    TAGNI - Most ancient name for the God of Witchcraft

    TANA - The Star Goddess

    TANUS - The Star God, consort to Tana

    ELSWET.COMTARQUINIA - Etruscan Lioness Goddess, picture to the right is of two Etruscan Warriors and was drawn within the tomb of Tarquinia circa 520 B.C.

    TERMINUS - God of boundaries and fields, protector of personal property

    THALNA - Etruscan Goddess of Childbirth; depicted as a youthful woman

    TINIA or TIN - Supreme Etruscan Sky God, married to UNI

    TUCHULCHA - Etruscan Goddess of Death; she is part human, part bird, and part animal, with snakes in her hair and around her arms.

    TURAN - Etruscan Goddess of Love, Health and Fertility; usually portrayed as a young woman with wings on her back

    TURMS - Etruscan messenger God

    UMBRIA - Goddess of the shadows and of things which are hidden or secret

    UNI - Etruscan name for the Goddess of witchcraft

    VANTH - Etruscan Goddess of Death; she is depicted with wings, a cap on her head, and a key to open tombs in her hand.

    VEIVE - Etruscan God of Revenge; portrayed as a young man wearing a laurel wreath and holding arrows in his hand

    VESTA - Goddess of the hearth and fire

    VIRBIUS - God of outcasts and outlaws, guardian of sanctuaries

    VITUMNUS - Etruscan Goddess who gives life to the fetus

    ZIRNA - Etruscan Moon Goddess; she was represented with a half-moon hanging from her neck.