Thesan
Sign in to saveIn Etruscan religion and mythology, Thesan is the goddess of the dawn. In Etruria, she was worshipped at Caere's harbour of Pyrgi, where a temple was dedicated to her and a singular series of "daybreak antefixes" was excavated. She received offerings alongside the sun god Usil, as escribed in the liber linteus. In art, Thesan was typically depicted with wings, and sometimes in the nude.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Etruscan
- Deity.name
- Thesan
- Deity.image
- Specchio con thesan (eos) e tinthun o giove semele, III sec ac., da perugia.JPG
- Deity.caption
- An ancient Etruscan mirror from Perugia depicting Thesan (c. 3rd century BCE)
- Deity.god_of
- Goddess of the dawn
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Eos and Leucothea
- Deity.Roman_equivalent
- Aurora and Mater Matuta
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Mythology
- The Curse of Aphrodite
- In art
- With her chariot
- With Cephalus
- With Memnun
- With Tinia
- With Usil and Nethuns
- See also
- References
- External links
In Etruscan religion and mythology, Thesan is the goddess of the dawn. In Etruria, she was worshipped at Caere's harbour of Pyrgi, where a temple was dedicated to her and a singular series of "daybreak antefixes" was excavated. She received offerings alongside the sun god Usil, as escribed in the liber linteus. In art, Thesan was typically depicted with wings, and sometimes in the nude.
Thesan's equivalent in Roman mythology may have been the goddess Aurora, and her equivalent in Greek mythology may have been Eos. However, other evidence points to her likeness being assimilated into the Greek sea goddess Leucothea and the Latin goddess Mater Matuta.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thesan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.