Apulu

Apulu
(Aplu)
  • God of the Sun and light, thunder and lightning, healing and plague
Member of Novensiles
Apulu on a coin from Populonia.
Other namesRath, Śuri, Usil, Vetis
MountMt. Soratte[1]
Gendermale
RegionItaly
Ethnic groupEtruscans
Genealogy
ParentsTinia and Semla[2]
Siblings
ConsortCatha
Equivalents
Greek equivalentApollo
Roman equivalentApollo Soranus
Hittite equivalentApaliunas

Apulu (Etruscan: 𐌖𐌋𐌖𐌐𐌀), also syncopated as Aplu (Etruscan: 𐌖𐌋𐌐𐌀), is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god Śuri[3][4][1][5][6] as chthonic sky god, roughly equivalent to the Greco-Roman god Apollo.[7][8][9] Their names are associated on Pyrgi inscriptions too.[10][3] The name Apulu or Aplu did not come directly from Greece but via a Latin center, probably Palestrina.[11][12][2]

Under the name Apulu, he is known as god of the Sun and light, thunder and lightning, healing and plague, as well as the protector of divination,[11][12] but he also has volcanic and infernal characteristics.[13][14][page needed]

He was also known as Rath,[15] Usil[16] and Vetis,[14] among other names.[4]

  1. ^ a b Virgil, 11.786.
  2. ^ a b c De Grummond & Simon 2006.
  3. ^ a b National Etruscan Museum.
  4. ^ a b Maras 2010.
  5. ^ Van der Meer 2013, pp. 323–341.
  6. ^ Myth Index.
  7. ^ Krauskopf 2006, pp. vii, pp. 73–75.
  8. ^ Bonfante & Bonfante 2002, p. 194.
  9. ^ Jannot 2005, p. 146.
  10. ^ Colonna 2009, pp. 101–126.
  11. ^ a b Cristofani 2000, pp. 161–162.
  12. ^ a b Cristofani 1985, pp. 12–13.
  13. ^ Classical Association 1918, p. 107.
  14. ^ a b Kenney & Clausen 1983.
  15. ^ Bonfante & Bonfante 2002, p. 204.
  16. ^ Nonoss 2015.

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