Tages
Etruscan · deity · archaic · deity
The revealer-numen of the Etrusca Disciplina: a child plowed from the earth at Tarquinia with the face of a boy and the wisdom of a sage, who dictated the arts of haruspicy and the reading of lightning before passing away. The fountainhead of Etruscan sacred science, named on the Tuscania mirror as Tarchies.
Domains
- divination and revelation
Powers
- Reveal the Etrusca Disciplina
Relations
- grandchild of: Tinia
Sources
- Cicero, De Divinatione 2.50-51
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.553-559
- Engraved mirror from Tuscania showing Tarchies and Pava Tarchies