Talk:Turan (mythology)
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[edit]Turan || Goddess of love and vitality and patroness of the Etruscan city of Vulci. She was usually depicted as a young winged girl in art. Pigeons and black swans were her sacred animals, and her retinue was called the Lasas. She was also the wife of Maris. She was associated with the Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus. Her name is a noun meaning "the act of giving" in Etruscan, based on the verb stem tur- 'to give'. She was the only Etruscan deity known to have a cult around her. [1]Dave 00:19, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
References
- ^ Richardson, Page 243.
Etymology
[edit]from (Ma)trona? see also Dea Matrona, matron: from L. matrona "married woman," from mater (gen. matris) "mother." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=matron&searchmode=none
or from tyrant < tyrannos(in Greek) Böri (talk) 09:57, 7 February 2010 (UTC)