Apulu
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Apulu (), also syncopated as Aplu (), is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god Śuri as chthonic sky god, roughly equivalent to the Greco-Roman god Apollo. Their names are associated on Pyrgi inscriptions too. The name Apulu or Aplu did not come directly from Greece but via a Latin center, probably Palestrina.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Etruscan
- Deity.name
- Apulu(Aplu)
- Deity.gender
- male
- Deity.other_names
- Rath, Śuri, Usil, Vetis
- Deity.member_of
- Novensiles
- Deity.image
- Populonia AR 10 asses Aplu 74000016.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Apulu on a coin from Populonia.
- Deity.consort
- Catha
- Deity.parents
- Tinia and Semla
- Deity.mount
- Mt. Soratte
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Apollo
- Deity.Roman_equivalent
- Apollo Soranus
- Deity.equivalent1_type
- Hittite
- Deity.equivalent1
- Apaliunas
- Deity.region
- Italy
- Deity.ethnic_group
- Etruscans
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Mentions and iconography
- In other cultures
- Greco-Roman equivalent
- See also
- Notes
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Apulu (), also syncopated as Aplu (), is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god Śuri as chthonic sky god, roughly equivalent to the Greco-Roman god Apollo. Their names are associated on Pyrgi inscriptions too. The name Apulu or Aplu did not come directly from Greece but via a Latin center, probably Palestrina.
Under the name Apulu, he is known as god of the Sun and light, thunder and lightning, healing and plague, as well as the protector of divination, but he also has volcanic and infernal characteristics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apulu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.