New Ancient Goddess Discovered?

[monsno_leedra]

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I am not a big fan of Grimassi,nothing personal,but I find him more interested in "Profit" than education on things.

He's one that tries or tried to tie everything and anything remotely connected to Italy and its history to Stregheria. Which I think made him a hero for a lot of budding new agey stregherian's but really removed any consideration his works might have had for fringe groups looking at Italian influenced practices. The fact it has little to not actual connection to actual Italian practice didn't matter. I noticed some of his works have been republished and now have dropped the Strega title and simply go with Italian Witchcraft.

[thalassa]

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For anyone interested in Etruscan religion, these are the four books I recommend:

Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies edited by Larissa Bonfante (several contributors, including Nancy TdeG)
Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend by Nancy Thompson de Grummond
The Religion of the Etruscans also by Nancy Thompson de Grummond
Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History by Sybille Haynes (less about religion, more for the cultural context of that religion)


Also, possibly of interest is a book called The Divine Liver by Rev. Skip Ellison (an ADF member), about the practice of haruspicy as practiced by the Etruscans and Romans.

[habbalah]

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I love this kind of stuff--cryptoreligious findings, I guess is the term. As technology makes archaeology safer, I hope we continue to discover more of the gods that time buried.

[anunitu]

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anything on Italian or Etruscan folklore that I know of was solely from Grimassi. a lesser extent from Monsno. but never to my knowledge of Uni.

I am not a big fan of Grimassi,nothing personal,but I find him more interested in "Profit" than education on things.

[toxicyarnglare]

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Uni is mentioned quite a bit in the book The Religion of the Etruscans, by Nancy Grummond, University of Texas Press, 2006. Seen her mentioned in other works as well so she is not exactly a newly discovered goddess. Granted many times it is in relationship to other goddesses through comparison or similarities of their purposes or roles. Figure this book was published in 2006 so well before this article's date of 2016 which suggests poor research on the part of the authors part who wrote the article I think.

At the very least, we're getting to learn more about this goddess than we have before, unless the book you mentioned (which is starting to sound pretty interesting to me) says roughly the same thing that these "new discoveries" said.

[monsno_leedra]

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Uni is mentioned quite a bit in the book The Religion of the Etruscans, by Nancy Grummond, University of Texas Press, 2006. Seen her mentioned in other works as well so she is not exactly a newly discovered goddess. Granted many times it is in relationship to other goddesses through comparison or similarities of their purposes or roles. Figure this book was published in 2006 so well before this article's date of 2016 which suggests poor research on the part of the authors part who wrote the article I think.

[lightdragon]

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The Etruscan goddess Thalna is sometimes also equated with her, and/or with Hera.

There's quite a bit of info about Uni out there, I just didn't recollect Grimassi going into it---but its been a long while since I've read anything by him...

anything on Italian or Etruscan folklore that I know of was solely from Grimassi. a lesser extent from Monsno. but never to my knowledge of Uni.

[thalassa]

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I forgot which book. but I think it was either Italian witchcraft or Hereditary witchcraft.

it is also quoted by other places and authors. Uni was often equated with Juno.

The Etruscan goddess Thalna is sometimes also equated with her, and/or with Hera.

There's quite a bit of info about Uni out there, I just didn't recollect Grimassi going into it---but its been a long while since I've read anything by him...





(For anyone interested in Etruscan religion, Nancy Thompson de Grummond and Larissa Bonfante are pretty much the way to go in terms of information.)

[lightdragon]

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Yeah...it's been a while since I've read mythic by him, but I don't recollect this.

I forgot which book. but I think it was either Italian witchcraft or Hereditary witchcraft.

it is also quoted by other places and authors. Uni was often equated with Juno.

[thalassa]

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I heard of this goddess before. just news that they found proof. pretty much found it in one of Raven Grimassi's books.

Yeah...it's been a while since I've read mythic* by him, but I don't recollect this.


*much---fixing autocorrect

[lightdragon]

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I heard of this goddess before. just news that they found proof. pretty much found it in one of Raven Grimassi's books.

[callmeclemens]

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This is really awesome. I often wonder how many Gods have been lost to time. I'll take this as a lesson to keep myself open on my path, who knows who you might find.

[anubisa]

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Wow! This is amazing!

[toxicyarnglare]

Link here.

These kinds of things amaze me, because I've been wondering for some time if there's deities out there that have yet to be discovered in the spirit world, and then we manage to find one right in the physical world.