Everything about Tinia totally explained
The Etruscan bright sky god
Tinia (also
Tin,
Tins or
Tina) was the highest god in
Etruscan mythology, the Etruscan equivalent of the
Roman Jupiter and the
Greek Zeus. He was the husband of
Thalna or
Uni and the father of
Heracle.
He was part of the powerful
triumvirate that included
Menrva and
Uni. He was associated with lightning, spears and scepters. In the
Etruscan language,
tin or
tinš means "day" and its plural is
tinia showing that he's a god governing the passage of time (compare
Father Time and
Ancient of Days).
Some of Tinia's defining
epithets are detailed on the
Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a liver used for
haruspicy. Some of his epithets inscribed there include
Tin Cilens,
Tin Θuf and
Tinś Θne.
Some inscriptions in which he appears are as follows.
- On a kylix painted by Oltos (ca 500 BC): » Itun turuce venel atelinas Tinas cliniiaras.
This has given Venel Atelinas for the sons of Tin (ie: The Dioscuri).
On the bronze Chimera of Arezzo: » Tinscvil
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