Tinia
c. 700 BCE – 100 BCEattested
Etruria
- Etruscan
Etruscan sky god who threw three kinds of lightning, each requiring a different reading. Etruscan priests made a technical discipline of interpreting them, and Rome kept hiring those priests for centuries.
Known for
- three grades of lightning
- the liver as a map of the sky
- divination as a profession
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.