Tiur

Tiur is the moon, and the Etruscan word tiur means the moon and the month alike — the clearest sign that the goddess was thought of as the measure of time as much as a light in the sky. Her genitive, tivs, labels half the sixteen regions of the Etruscan heaven on the Liver of Piacenza, the other half being usils, 'of the sun'. Beyond that pairing the evidence is thin: no myth, no genealogy and no securely identified image, and the record is kept to what the theonym and the liver actually support. A Nigerian deity of the Tiv also appears in this registry; the resemblance of the names is coincidence, and the two are unrelated figures.

Domains

• moon
• divination

Powers

• to measure out the month, the name of the moon serving also as the name of the month

Relations

• ally: UsilPaired with Usil, the sun: their two names divide the sixteen regions of the Etruscan sky between them.Liver of Piacenza — usils and tivs name the two halves of the sixteen-region sky. (archaeological)

Sources

• Tiur is the Etruscan moon, named on the Liver of Piacenza beside the sun Usil; the word means both moon and month, and the genitive tivs labels the lunar half of the sixteen regions of the sky.: Liver of Piacenza (2nd-1st c. BCE), Museo Civico, Piacenza. (archaeological); Reference article 'Usil', on Tiur as moon goddess and on tiur as the word for 'month'. (secondary)