Tinia
Etruscan god
Tinia (also Tin, Tinh, Tins or Tina) was the sky god and the highest deity in Etruscan religion, equivalent to the Roman Jupiter and the Greek Zeus.
However, a primary source from the Roman Varro states that Veltha, not Tins, was the supreme deity of the Etruscans. This has led some scholars to conclude that they were assimilated, but this is speculation.
Tinia was the husband of Uni and the father of Hercle.
The Etruscans had a group of nine gods who had the power of hurling thunderbolts; they were called Novensiles by the Romans. Of thunderbolts there were eleven sorts, of which Tinia wielded three.
Tinia was sometimes represented with a beard or sometimes as youthful and beardless. In terms of symbolism, Tinia has the thunderbolt. Tinia's thunderbolts could be red or blood coloured.
Like Selvans and possibly Laran, Tinia also protected boundaries.
“Tinia” enters the record as etruscan god. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tinia and Etruscan can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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