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Gods/Godesses

In Alphabetical Order:

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Abeona
She is the goddess guardian of children leaving home to go on their own.
Abundantia (Abundita)
Goddess of agriculture and abundance.
Acaviser
An Etruscan goddess, one of the Lasas (Fates).
Acca
Goddess associated with Hercules.
Acca Larentia
An earth goddess. The foster-mother, as a she-wolf, that nursed Romulus and Remus. She is also said to be an early Etruscan goddess who passed into Roman myth as a semi-devine prostitute.
Acidusa
Called "Mother of Maidens". Wife of Scamander.
Adeona
Goddess of schoolchildren; similar to Abeona above.
Adeos
Goddess of modesty.
Admeta
A priestess of Juno.
Aegeria
A goddess of prophecy. She is invoked by pregnant women. One of the Camenae.
Aeneas
One of the heroes of the Iliad, and the subject of Virgil's Aeneid. Son of Venus.
Aestas
Goddess of summer; usually portrayed nude and adorned with garlands of corn.
Aetna
Aetna is the Roman mountain goddess after whom the Italian volcano Mount Etna is named. In some legends she is the wife of the smith god Vulcan.
Albina
Etruscan dawn goddess; protector of ill-fated lovers. A white sow goddess similar to the celtic Cerridwen.
Albunea
A prophetic priestess.
Alemona
Goddess of fetuses.
Alpan
(Etruscan) An attendant to Turan, goddess of love.
Altria
(Etruscan) An ancient earth goddess.
Amor
God of love.
Anagtia
A goddess of healing.
Anceta
Goddess of healing along with Angita and Anagtia.
Angerona
The goddess of the winter solstice, and goddess of fear and anguish (producing or relieving).
Angina
Another goddess of health, specifically of sore throats.
Angitia
Early Roman goddess of healing and witchcraft.
Anieros
A very early earth goddess, who with her daughter Axiocersa, personified the earth in spring (Axiocersa) and in autumn (Anieros).
Anima Mundi
Personification of immortality; means "Soul of the World".
Anna Perenna
An Etruscan goddess who ruled human and vegetative reproduction.
Anteros
Etruscan god of passion.
Antevorta
Goddess of prophecy and childbirth.
Appiades, The
Two groups:
1. The nymphs of the Appian Spring in Rome.
2. The five goddesses: Concordia, Minerva, Pax, Venus, and Vesta.
Appias
A fountain nymph.
Aricia
A goddess of prophetic visions.
Arria
A heroic Roman whose husband was ordered by the emperor to commit suicide. The husband could not force himself to do so until Arria grabbed his dagger, stabbed herself, then handed the dagger to her husband saying, "It does not hurt."
Ascanius
The son of Aeneas. He is the founder of the city of Alba Longa in Italy.
Astraea
Goddess of justice.
Attis
A vegetation god.
Aurita
Goddess that heals earaches.
Aurora
The personification of the dawn. Her Greek counterpart was Eos.
Averna
The queen of the dead
Avernales
Nymphs of the rivers of the underworld.
Averruncus
Goddess of childbirth; specifically of the delivery.
Aversa
(Etruscan) A goddess pictured carrying an ax. Function unknown.
Bacchus
In Greek and Roman mythology, the god of wine and ecstasy, identified with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and Liber, the Roman god of wine. His followers were mostly women who celebrated in a rite that gave us the modern term Bacchanalia. His feasts were drunken euphoria-filled revelries that sometimes led to bloodshed. The name Bacchus came into use in ancient Greece during the 5th century bc. It refers to the loud cries with which he was worshiped at the Bacchanalia, frenetic celebrations in his honor. These events, which supposedly originated in spring nature festivals, became occasions for licentiousness and intoxication, at which the celebrants danced, drank, and generally debauched themselves. The Bacchanalia became more and more extreme and were prohibited by the Roman Senate in 186 bc.
Befana
(Italy) She is represented as an old woman who, although ugly, is also very kind. On January 5th of each year she distributes candy to the good children and lumps of coal to the bad.
Begoe
Goddess of lightning and thunder.
Bellona
The goddess of war, popular among the Roman soldiers. She accompanied Mars in battle. She was either the wife, daughter, or sister of Mars, and was sometimes portrayed as his charioteer or muse. This serpent-haired goddess is often described as the feminine side of the god Mars. She is identified with the Greek war goddess Enyo. In front of Bellona's temple, the fetialis (priestly officials) performed the declaration of war ceremony, the casting of a spear against the distant enemy. Bellona's attribute is a sword and she is depicted wearing a helmet. She could be of Etruscan origin. Human sacrifices were made to her.
Bona
Goddess of female characteristics.
Bona Dea
Latin for "Good Goddess". The deity of fruitfulness, both in earth and in women. She was worshipped by the Vestals as the goddess of chastity and fertility.
Bormonia
A goddess of healing.
Bubona
Goddess protector of animals.
Byblis
A water nymph who suffered from unrequited love.
Caca
Goddess of fire or vice.
Cacus
Fire deity, brother of Caca. Cacus, three-headed and vomiting flames, was a son of Vulcan. He was noted as a robber, and was strangled to death by Hercules when he stole some of Hercules' cattle.
Calybe
A water nymph.
Camenae, The
These water spirits dwell in freshwater springs and rivers. Their name means "foretellers". Their festival, the Fontinalia, was celebrated on October 13 by tossing good luck wreaths into wells. Among them are Aegiria, Antevorta, Carmentis (the leader), Porrima, Prorsa, Proversa, Postvorta, Tiburtis, and Timandra.
Camilla
A virgin queen. She was so swift, it is said, that she could run over the sea without getting her feet wet. She was a warrior dedicated to the service of the virgin goddess Diana. In one myth Camilla led an army against Aeneas and his invading Trojans. On foot, and with breasts bare, she fought at the head of the army, but was killed by Aeneas. In another she is killed in battle by the Etruscan Arruns.
Camise
A water nymph; mother of Tibernius by Janus.
Candelifera
Goddess who assists at birth, in charge of providing enough light during delivery.
Canente
Ocean nymph who grieved so much over the loss of her husband she dissolved in tears.
Cardea
Goddess who possessed power over doorways. Cardea was a minor goddess who personified the hinges of the front door, and therefore the comings and goings of family life. She was particularly invoked to protect sleeping children against night-spirits who might harm or kill them. She is similar to the Greek goddess Artemis also.
Carmenta (Carmentis)
A goddess of prophecy and midwifery; she also brought the art of writing to her land. She was said to assist a woman in labor and to tell the future of the newborn.
Carmina
(Etruscan) Goddess of spells.
Cath
(Etruscan) Sun god. Pictured as having on his head the flaming disc of the sun, and holding in each hand a ball of fire.
Carna
A pesonification of the physical processes of survival. "Carnal" is a derivative.
Ceres
Daughter of Saturn and Ops. Goddess of the growth of food plants. She and her daughter Proserpine were the counterparts of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone. Her worship involved fertility rites and rites for the dead, and her chief festival was the Cerealia. (Our word cereal is derived from Ceres.)
Charontes
(Etruscan) Male and female demons. Usually pictured carrying hammers.
Charun
(Etruscan) Escorter of the dead to the underworld. A male demon; he has a vulture's nose, pointed animal ears, and snakes instead of hair on his head. He carries a hammer, the attribute of the Carontes who are named after him.
Cloacina
Goddess who watched over the construction and preservation of sewers (think Cloaca Maxima, that famous sewer in ancient Rome). She was also the protector of sexual intercourse in marriage.
Cloelia
Heroine whose bravery was responsible for the peace talks between her countrymen, the Romans, and her Etruscan captors.
Coinquenda
Goddess of trees.
Collatina
Goddess of hills.
Comitia
A goddess of childbirth.
Comus
Son of Bacchus and Circe(?). The god of sensual pleasure.
Conciliatrix
Goddess of marital harmony.
Concordia
Concordia is the goddess of peace and is pictured as a heavyset matron holding a cornucopia in one hand and an olive branch in the other.
Consentes Dii
The 12 chief gods (a la the 12 Greek Olympian gods): Jupiter, Apollo, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Vulcan, Juno, Diana, Minerva, Venus, Ceres, and Vesta.
Consus
A god of agriculture and counseling.
Copia
Goddess of plenty a la "cornucopia" and "copious".
Corvus
The messenger of the gods.
Cuba
Goddess of infants. She brings sleep to them; her cohorts are Edulica who blesses their food and Portina who blesses their drinking. She is sister to Cunina and Rumina.
Culsa
A female demon of the underworld. She carries a torch and a pair of scissors for cutting the thread of life.
Cunina
Goddess who protected infants asleep in their cradles.
Cupid
Means desire (Lat. cupido). The son of Venus, goddess of love. His Greek mythology counterpart was Eros, god of love. The most famous myth about Cupid is the one that documents his romance with Psyche:
Psyche was a beautiful princess. Venus, jealous of Psyche's beauty, ordered her son Cupid, god of love, to make Psyche fall in love with the ugliest man in the world. Instead, he fell in love with her, and spirited her away to a secluded palace where he visited her only at night, unseen and unrecognized by her. He forbade her to ever look upon his face, but one night while he was asleep she lit a lamp and looked at him. Cupid then abandoned her and she was left to wander the world, in misery, searching for him. Finally Cupid repented and had Jupiter make her immortal so they could be together forever.
Cupra
Personification of the day (or light).
Cura
Goddess who first fashioned humans from clay.
Cyane
Sicilian nymph, companion of Proserpina. She was so devastated over the loss of Proserpina that she cried until she became a well.
Cybele
Her Greek mythology counterpart was Rhea, mother of the Olympian gods. Cybele was the goddess of nature and fertility. Because Cybele presided over mountains and fortresses, her crown was in the form of a city wall. The cult of Cybele was directed by eunuch priests called Corybantes, who led the faithful in orgiastic rites accompanied by wild cries and the frenzied music of flutes, drums, and cymbals. Her annual spring festival celebrated the death and resurrection of her beloved Attis, a vegetation god.

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Dea Dia
Ancient goddess of corn and agriculture.
Dea Marica
Goddess of the marshes.
Decuma
One of the Parcae.
Deverra
One of the three goddesses who protect young mothers. The other two are Intercidona and Pilumnus.
Dia
Her name shows that she was one of Italy's original goddesses, but there is little information about her today.
Diana
Goddess of the hunt. In Roman art Diana usually appears as a huntress with bow and arrow, along with a hunting dog or a stag. She is also goddess of the moon, forests, animals, and women in childbirth. Both a virgin goddess and an earth goddess, she was identified with the Greek Artemis. She is praised for her strength, athletic grace, beauty and her hunting skills. With two other deities she made up a trinity: Egeria the water nymph (her servant and assistant midwife), and Virbius (the woodland god).
Dido
The Carthaginian Queen who was involved in an ill-fated affair with Aeneas (in the Aeneid).
Disciplina
Goddess of discipline.
Discordia
She was the personification of strife. She was sister to Mars and belonged to the retinue of Mars and Bellona. She is identified with the Greek Eris (The goddess of discord).
Dis Pater
God of death and the Underworld. Also called Dispater or Dis.

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Edusa
Goddess of infants who are weaning.
Egeria
A water nymph who was religious adviser to Numa, King of Rome (700 BCE).
Empanda (Empanada)
This goddess of asylum personified the idea of openness and generosity.
Equestris
Protector of domesticated animals.
Erichthonius
Son of Vulcan. He was deformed (had dragon feet). Athena put him in a box and gave it to the care of the daughters of Cecrops, with strict orders not to open the box. Naturally they opened it and what they saw so frightened them they jumped off Acropolis to their deaths. He later became the constellation Auriga, which is Latin for charioteer, as he is said to be the inventor of the chariot.
Ethausva
Goddess of childbirth.
Fagus
Tree god adopted by the Romans from the Pyreneans. His tree was the beech tree.
Fama
Goddess of fame or rumor. She is said to have many eyes and mouths. She travels about the world, first whispering her rumors to only a few, then becoming louder and louder till the whole world knows the news. She lived in a palace with a thousand windows, all of which were always kept open so she could hear everything that was said by anyone on earth. Her friends were Credulitas (error), Laetitia (joy), Timores (terror), and Susuri (rumor). She was known as Ossa to the Greeks.
Fate
Goddess of fate.
The Fates
The Roman Fates were the "Parcae"; the Norse Fates were the "Norns" (They were usually three: Urth (Wyrd), past; Verthandi, present; and Skuld, future); the Greek fates were called the "Moerae" or "Moirai" (Clotho, who spun the web of life; Lachesis, who measured its length; and Atropos, who cut it). The Parcae were three very old women who spin the fate of mortal destiny. They were Nona, Decuma, and Morta. Nona spun the thread of life, Decuma assigned it to a person and Morta cut it, ending that person's life.
Fauna
Goddess who personified fertility. She was the wife of Faunus.
Faunus
Son of Picus. A woodland deity, protector of herds and crops; identified with the Greek Pan. The grandson of the god Saturn, he was worshiped as the god of the fields and of shepherds. He was believed to speak to people through the sounds of the forest and in nightmares. He was attended by the fauns, creatures that resemble humans somewhat except for the fact that they have short horns, pointed ears, tails and goat's feet, the counterparts of the Greek satyrs.
Faustulus
The shepherd who, with his wife Acca, found and raised the twins Romulus and Remus.
Favonius
The Roman adaptation of the Greek god Zephyros (god of the West Wind).
Febris
Goddess of fevers.
Februa
Goddess of purification. Sometimes called Februus, and considered male.
Februlis
Another goddess of purification.
Februus
Etruscan god of purification who dwells in the underworld.
Fecunditas
Goddess of fertility.
Felicitas
The goddess of good luck. She was a favorite of the Roman emperors and their generals.
Feronia
The deity who protects freedmen. This goddess made her home in woodlands or at the foot of mountains. Some believe she is an Etruscan goddess dating back before Rome, powerful enough to maintain her own identity after the Roman conquest.
Fides
Goddess of good faith and honesty. Fides was the guardian of integrity and honesty in all dealings between individuals and groups. She was depicted as an old woman wearing an olive wreath and carrying a basket of fruit.
Flora
Goddess of flowers and springtime. Her festival, the Floralia, was licentious in spirit (she was revered especially by courtesans since flowers are the sex organs of plants and she represented flowers) and featured dramatic spectacles, the passing of obscene medallions and love-making by friends and/or strangers. The women paraded about unclothed, at least until the 3rd century CE, when that was banned by the authorities. Flora was depicted as a beautiful maiden, wearing a crown of flowers.
Fluonia
Goddess who stops the menstrual flow.
Fons
Goddess of fountains.
Fornax
Goddess of bread.
Fortuna
She controls the destiny of every human being by permitting the fertilization of humans, animals and plants. She was shown as a blind woman holding a rudder (for steering a course for each of us) and a cornucopia (for the wealth that she could bring).
Fraud (Fraus)
Goddess of betrayal. She has a human face, the body of a serpent, and a scorpion stinger at the end of her tail.
Fulgora
Goddess of lightning.
Furrina
An ancient Italian goddess who is all but forgotten in myth now. Some mythographers believe she was one of the Furies.
Furina
Etruscan goddess of darkness and robbers.
Galiana
(Etruscan) She saved her city from a Roman invasion by appearing naked on the battlefield. Her appearance so affected the Romans that they fell back in confusion.
Geneta Mana
A goddess who presided over life and death.
Giane
(Sardinia) A woodland spinning spirit, an average-sized woman with steel fingernails, long disheveled hair, and long, pendant breasts that she threw over her shoulders as she was working her magic loom. As she worked she would sing plaintive love songs. If a human man should respond she would have intercourse with him. The man would die when they were done and his child, a half-breed brute, would be born only three days later.
Glaucus
God of the sea (according to Virgil).
Hercules
The Romans borrowed this hero from the Greeks (Herakles) and changed his name into the familiar Latin one of Hercules (see under Heracles).
Hippona
Goddess who presides over horses.
Hora
Goddess who presides over time and/or beauty.
Horta
Goddess of gardens.
Hostilina
Goddess who presides over corn in growth.
Hybla
Ancient Sicilian earth goddess, and ancestor of humanity.
Hygieia
Goddess of health.
Hymen (Hymenaeus)
God of marriage, invoked the wedding night.
Iaso
Goddess of healing.
Ilia
The Vestal virgin who became, by Mars, the mother of the twins Romulus and Remus. She is the daughter of king Numitor of Alba Longa, who was dethroned by his brother Amulius. Her uncle gave her to the goddess Vesta so she would remain a virgin for the rest of her life. Amulius had learned from an oracle that her children would become a threat to his power. However, because she had violated her sacred vow (by dallying with Mars), she and her children were cast in the Tiber. The god Tiberinus rescued her and made her his wife.
Inferna
Her name means "underworld"; used as an alternate name for Proserpina.
Intercidona
Protectress of children and goddess of the axe that separated the newborn from danger. She guards new mothers from evil spirits.
Interduca
Name given to Juno when related to the marriage ceremony.
Jana
Moon goddess, wife of Janus.
Janus
Janus, custodian of the universe, god of beginnings. The guardian of gates and doors, he held sacred the first hour of the day, first day of the month, and first month of the year (which bears his name). He is represented with two bearded heads set back to back, the better to see the year just ended and to face the year just beginning.
Juga (Jugalis)
Goddess of marriage.
Juno
Queen of the heavens, supreme female deity, and the wife and sister of the god Jupiter. She was the protector of women from birth to death and was worshiped under several names, i.e. Virginalis, Opigena, Sospita, Natalis, Juga (Jugalis), and Matrona, among others. As Juno Pronuba she presided over marriage; as Juno Lucina she aided women in childbirth; as Juno Prema (or Pertunda) she oversaw the initial sex act of newlyweds; and as Juno Regina she was the special counselor and protector of the Roman state. She is considered to be the female counterpart to Jupiter, king of the gods. Every year, on the first of March, women held a festival in honor of Juno called the Matronalia. To this day, many people consider the month of June, which is named after the goddess to be the most favorable time to marry. The peacock is sacred to Juno. Her Greek mythology counterpart was Hera, although she was far less likely to display the vindictiveness that Hera displayed over Zeus' infidelities.
Jupiter
King of the Roman gods, son of Saturn (whom he overthrew) and Ops, brother and husband of Juno. He was particularly concerned with oaths, treaties, confederations and with the most ancient and sacred form of marriage. Jupiter, the name, is derived from the same root word as Zeus (bright). He was improperly called Jove also. Originally the god of the sky, Jupiter was worshiped as god of rain, thunder, and lightning. He developed into the prime protector of the state, and as the protector of Rome he was called Jupiter Optimus Maximus. As Jupiter Fidius he was guardian of law, defender of truth, and protector of justice and virtue. The Romans identified Jupiter with Zeus, the supreme god of the Greeks, and assigned to the Roman god the attributes and myths of the Greek divinity; the Jupiter of Latin literature, therefore, has many Greek characteristics, but the Jupiter of Roman religious worship remained substantially untouched by the Greek influence. With the goddeses Juno and Minerva, Jupiter formed the triad whose worship was the central cult of the Roman state.
Justitia
Goddess of justice. She is depicted as blindfolded holding two balanced scales and a sword.
Juturna
Goddess of fountains. In some myths she is the mother of Fons.
Juventas
Goddess of youth.

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