Śuri

Śuri is a fire god, and a dark one: his character is chthonic rather than celestial, and his name is tied to Soranus, the god of Mount Soracte whose priests the Romans said walked on coals. He was worshipped at Pyrgi, the port sanctuary of Caere best known for its gold tablets in Etruscan and Phoenician. His importance to the shape of the Etruscan pantheon is that current reference treatment makes Apulu — Aplu, the Etruscan Apollo — an epithet of him rather than a god in his own right. This registry keeps both records and links them explicitly, since the question is live and a silent merge would settle it by fiat.

Domains

• fire
• underworld

Epithets

• ApuluReference article 'Apulu': Apulu, syncopated Aplu, is an epithet of Śuri as chthonic sky god. (secondary)

Relations

• equated with: ApluOne scholarly position makes Apulu/Aplu an epithet of this god rather than an independent theonym. Both records are kept, with this edge marking the identification rather than silently collapsing them.Reference article 'Apulu': Apulu is an epithet of the Etruscan fire god Śuri as chthonic sky god. (secondary)

Sources

• Śuri is an Etruscan fire god of chthonic character, worshipped at Pyrgi among other places, whose name is connected with the Latin Soranus of Mount Soracte; current reference treatment makes Apulu/Aplu an epithet of him.: The sanctuary at Pyrgi, port of Caere. (archaeological); Reference article 'Apulu', on Śuri as fire god and on Apulu as his epithet as chthonic sky god. (secondary)