Usil

Usil is the sun of the Etruscans, and his name is simply their word for the sun. On the Liver of Piacenza his genitive, usils, labels one half of the sixteen regions of the sky, against tivs, 'of the moon' — so the sun and moon between them frame the whole field a haruspex read. In art he is haloed, often winged, rising or in a chariot, and he keeps company with Thesan, the dawn. The deity is usually male, but female depictions exist and the corpus of images does not resolve into a single fixed figure.

Domains

• sun and daylight
• divination

Powers

• to run the course of the day, rising winged from the sea

Relations

• ally: Tiur
• ally: Thesan
• ally: Catha

Sources

• Liver of Piacenza (2nd-1st c. BCE), Museo Civico, Piacenza.
• Reference article 'Usil', on the theonym, the sun/moon division of the sky, the iconography and the association with Thesan.