THE DIVERSITY OF ETRUSCAN CULTS
Many features of Etruscan religion were common to most peoples of the Mediterranean, especially the Greek cities, Italic tribes and Levantine voyagers with whom Etruscans were in contact.
These include processions, ritual meals, music, traditions of vows and offerings, burning incense, sacrifice of living animals, divination and belief in an afterlife/underworld. Iron Age cult practice in Etruria resembles that of neighbouring, Italic, cultures (Latium, Campania, Umbria); Faliscans shared intensively with their Etruscan neighbours and mentors. From the end of the eighth century on, inscriptions, onomastic conventions, sanctuary architecture and votive ritual demonstrate the interaction of Etruscans with Italics in intermarriage, public worship and funerary cult. “Federal” sanctuaries such as the fanum Voltumnae (Volsinii) served groups of Etruscan cities; one such sanctuary, a grove sacred to the goddess Feronia, and known as Lucus Feroniae, was supported by Etruscan, Faliscan and Capenate communities.
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