Thana was an Illyrian goddess of forests, wild animals and the hunt, worshipped in the Liburnian and Pannonian lands of the western Balkans. She is attested in Roman-era votive inscriptions, where she appears as the constant companion of the woodland god Vidasus; the two are most fully documented at the warm springs of Topusko in Pannonia Superior, where their names invariably stand together on sacrificial altars and where the Romans equated them with Diana and Silvanus. Called the 'Forest Mother', Thana governed the hunt and the creatures of the wild and was associated with springs and streams. She is of special importance to the history of Balkan religion, since the Illyrian Thana is widely held to be the direct antecedent of the Albanian fairy-goddess Zana and a linguistic cognate of the Latin Diana, the change from Illyrian th to Albanian z marking the descent.