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	Voltumna
		Voltumna, also known as Veltha, is a chthonic god of the Etruscans, later elevated to the status of supreme god.
		The center of his cult was in Volsini.
		Article "Voltumna" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 15 March 1997 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/v/voltumna.html (57 words)

	ANTIKITERA.NET - Il Portale Italiano dell'Archeologia Misteriosa
		Uno degli interrogativi che più frequentemente gli studiosi di cose etrusche si pongono è dove si trovasse veramente il cosiddetto “Fanum Voltumnae”, cioè “il santuario del dio Voltumna” (da fanum = tempio, santuario, luogo sacro).
		In realtà, Voltumna non compare tra le divinità del pantheon etrusco: è documentato “solo da testimonianze letterarie ed epigrafiche latine”, anche se il suo nome è riconducibile all’etrusco velθa, e “può essere riconosciuto...
		Sulla base dell’affermazione di Varrone, che lo definisce “deus Etruriae princeps”, Voltumna è stato assimilato a Tinia, il dio supremo degli Etruschi, equivalente al Giove latino: ”ritengo che dietro la forma latinizzata Voltumna sia da ricercarsi un epiteto, una qualificazione (di tipo funzionale, gentilizio o altro) del Tinia volsiniese”.
	www.antikitera.net /articoli.asp (1103 words)

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		Voltumna, also known as Veltha, is a chthonic god of the Etruscans, later elevated to the status of supreme god.
		Voltumna è la divinità ctonia (della terra) nella mitologia etrusca conosciuta anche con il nome di Veltha..In seguito divenne il dio...
		Voltumna (Etruscan) The highest goddess, at the side of Tinia.
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	Corriere.it
		Today, it might be called a mass community event for it involved thousands of people.Priests, politicians, soldiers, worshippers, athletes taking part in the games, merchants and sellers all flocked to a huge fair that was well-known to the Romans.
		The director of excavations, Professor Simonetta Stopponi, who holds the chair of Etruscan studies and Italic archaeology at Macerata, maintains with professional caution that absolute certainty will only come with the discovery of an inscription dedicated to the god Voltumna, the main earth god and patron of the Etruscans.
		The idea of digging at this spot is not a new one.
	www.corriere.it /english/articoli/2006/09_Settembre/01/etruschi.shtml (654 words)

	Fanum voltumnae
		Assadakah - Il Fanum Voltumnae resta un mistero Archeologia: Il Fanum Voltumnae resta un mistero...
		Il Giornale dell'Arte Il Fanum Voltumnae, ricercato sin dai tempi di Annio da Viterbo (XV secolo), era il santuario federale delle cittÃ -stato etrusche ove si riunivano ogni anno...
		Voltumnae Voltumnae - Per informazioni rivolgersi a Mario Morano, segretario generale del centro studi Fanum Voltumnae al numero telefonico 0761-826894.
	fanum-voltumnae.win-for-italy.info (1184 words)

	Langara
		Like Tinia, Voltumna is visible from Langara as the Wanderer; a pale, white 'star' that sails across the sky and which is treated as a harbinger of disaster.
		It was her special role in mythology to keep Voltumna chained in the bowels of the earth, although that duty passed to her father once he became seen as ruler of the underworld.
		Voltumna is believed to have been a rival of Thanos who was subjected to eternal imprisonment by Artume, acting as her father's huntress.
	www.prophet.phlegethon.org /Fiction/SEG/langara.htm (3510 words)

	Vertumnus
		He could change his form at will; using this power, he tricked Pomona into marrying him by disguising himself as an old woman.
		Vertumnus' cult arrived at Rome around 300 BC (from his Etruscan counterpart: Voltumna) and a temple to him was constructed on the Aventine Hill in 264 BC.
		A statue of him was placed at the Vicus Tuscus.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vo/Vortumnus.html (88 words)

	Qwika - Etrusker
		Religious center is that Fanum Voltumnae, Orvieto or Bolsena lain.
		Voltumna is considered as the highest God of the Etrusker.
		Only few longer documents in etruskischer language and Writing are received.
	wikipedia.qwika.com /de2en/Etrusker (1291 words)

	Fair - LoveToKnow 1911
		Public gatherings, whether religious, military or judicial, which brought together widely scattered populations, were utilized as opportunities for commerce.
		At the festivals of Delos and at the Olympic games trade, it is said, found important outlets, while in Etruria the annual general assembly at the temple of Voltumna served at the same time as a fair and was regularly attended by Roman traders.
		Instances of a similar nature might be multiplied; but it was above all with religious festivals which recurred with regularity and convoked large numbers of persons that fairs, as distinguished from markets, are most intimately associated.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Fair (3415 words)

	Velzna (Roman Volsinii) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was a sacred place of greatest importance, where every year the representatives of the Etruscan 12-City League would meet to discuss important political and economic transactions.
		No area was left untouched, including the sacred Fanum Voltumnae.
		The bronzes, among the finest Etruria had to offer were melted down to make bronze coins for the war effort.
	www.mysteriousetruscans.com /velzna.html (489 words)

	Etruscan Holy City Discovered (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Listing some of those characteristics, she mentioned "the scale of the construction, its intricate structure and layout, the presence of wells and fountains and the central temple building".
		Also supporting the claim that this is the Fanum Voltumnae is the fact that the area was used continuously for religious purposes right from the 6th century BC up to the 15th century.
		In fact Roman temples were built on it in later centuries and the last church was erected there in the 12th century.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1698193/posts (1476 words)

	Etruscans - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Apart from this, the Etruscans could be considered, as many ancient sources describe them, "duodecim populi Eturiae" or "the twelve peoples of Eturia".
		An important divinity was Voltumna, worshipped in a shrine at Orvieto, the ancient Volsinii destroyed by the Romans in 264 BC.
		Original God of the Etruscans, Patron of the Etruscan League Centred on the Fanum Voltumnae in Volsinii.God of Change,Seasons.
	www.crystalinks.com /etruscans.html (4418 words)

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	BIBLIO - Dio Voltumna
		Dio Voltumna : alcuni Dei etruschi si ritrovano anche nella mitologia romana - Aplu (Apollo) e Maris (Marte), l'eroe Hercle (Ercole).
		Il dio Voltumna invece era tipicamente etrusco e proteggeva le leghe sacre che riunivano in alleanza la federazione delle dodici città stato etrusche.
		Noto anche come Veltha venne poi elevato al rango di Dio supremo.Era detto il Multiforme, e rappresentava l'eterno mutare della stagioni.
	www.comune.orvieto.tr.it /I/39D10A17.htm (76 words)

	Nova Roma - Aquila
		The ancient Etruscan town of Velzna stood upon the present day site of Bolsena in Lazio Province (Latium).
		At an unidentified site nearby was a temple to Voltumna which served as the headquarters for the twelve-city Etruscan League and the site of the annual assemblies of the Etruscans.
		Excavations at Bolsena have uncovered uge double walls surrounding the group of small hills upon which the city was built.
	www.novaroma.org /aquila/january/01.htm (498 words)

	Etruscan Deities
		Voltumna was identified with the Roman god Vertumnus.
		Voltumna was also a tutelary deity of the Volsinii, where the god has a temple at Bolsena, dedicated to him.
		Below, are the list of other Etruscan deities.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/etruscan.html (546 words)

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