The Etruscan Underworld god is represented in some painted tombs with a wolf skin on his head. Why was the wolf chosen to represent a god? This is the question I will try to answer, starting from a biological approach, by examining the wolf behaviour in nature. I will consider myths and rites of the Mediterranean area and archaeological findings related to the wolf. The aim is to establish the process that led in the Etruscan-Italian world, to the development of an elusive underworld god, linked to the cities foundation rituals, iconograph- ically represented with a bare wolf on his head.
Wolves and gods in the Etruscan world / Fogliazza, Silvia. - 3:(2020), pp. 95-102. (Intervento presentato al convegno Vth International Symposium on Archaeology "Cult, Myth, Religion", Et homo deum creavit tenutosi a Strumica).
Wolves and gods in the Etruscan world
Silvia Fogliazza
2020
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The Etruscan Underworld god is represented in some painted tombs with a wolf skin on his head. Why was the wolf chosen to represent a god? This is the question I will try to answer, starting from a biological approach, by examining the wolf behaviour in nature. I will consider myths and rites of the Mediterranean area and archaeological findings related to the wolf. The aim is to establish the process that led in the Etruscan-Italian world, to the development of an elusive underworld god, linked to the cities foundation rituals, iconograph- ically represented with a bare wolf on his head.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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