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The Etruscan bright sky god Tinia (also Tin, Tins or Tina) was the highest god in Etruscan mythology
Etruscan mythology

The Etruscan civilizations were a people of unknown origin living in Northern Italy, who were eventually integrated into Roman culture and politically became part of the Roman Republic....
, the Etruscan equivalent of the Roman
Roman mythology

Roman mythology, or more appropriately, Latin mythology, refers to the mythology beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its main city, Rome....
 Jupiter and the Greek
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
. He was the husband of Thalna
Thalna

In Etruscan mythology, Thalna was the goddess of childbirth and wife of Tinia. She was depicted in art as a youthful woman.Early Roman Mythology focused on the interlocking and complex interrelations between gods and humans....
 or Uni
Uni

:For the numerical prefix...
 and the father of Heracle
Heracle

Heracle in Etruscan mythology was the equivalent of the Greek hero Heracles from which he derives....
.

He was part of the powerful triumvirate
Triumvirate

The term triumvirate is commonly used to describe a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals. The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case....
 that included Menrva
Menrva

Menrva was an Etruscan mythology of war, art, wisdom and health. She contributed a lot of her character to Roman mythology Minerva.Though she was seen by Hellenized Etruscans as their counterpart to Greek mythology Athena, Menrva has some unique traits that makes it clear that she wasn't an import from Greece....
 and Uni
Uni (mythology)

Uni was the supreme goddess of the Etruscan mythology wiktionary:pantheon and the patron goddess of Perugia. Uni was identified by the Etruscans as their equivalent of Juno in Roman mythology and Hera in Greek mythology....
. He was associated with lightning, spears and scepters. In the Etruscan language
Etruscan language

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna , in Italy....
, tin or tinš means "day" and its plural is tinia showing that he is a god governing the passage of time
Time

Time is a component of the measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects....
 (compare Father Time
Father Time

Father Time is a personification of time. He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping device ....
 and Ancient of Days
Ancient of Days

Ancient of Days is a name for God in Aramaic: Atik Yomin; in the Greek Septuagint: Palaios Hemeron; and in the Vulgate: Antiquus Dierum....
).

Some of Tinia's defining epithet
Epithet

An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
s are detailed on the Piacenza Liver
Haruspex

File:Haruspex.pngIn Ancient Rome practice inherited from the Etruscan civilization, a haruspex was a man trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy, hepatoscopy or hepatomancy....
, a bronze model of a liver used for haruspicy.






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The Etruscan bright sky god Tinia (also Tin, Tins or Tina) was the highest god in Etruscan mythology
Etruscan mythology

The Etruscan civilizations were a people of unknown origin living in Northern Italy, who were eventually integrated into Roman culture and politically became part of the Roman Republic....
, the Etruscan equivalent of the Roman
Roman mythology

Roman mythology, or more appropriately, Latin mythology, refers to the mythology beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its main city, Rome....
 Jupiter and the Greek
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
. He was the husband of Thalna
Thalna

In Etruscan mythology, Thalna was the goddess of childbirth and wife of Tinia. She was depicted in art as a youthful woman.Early Roman Mythology focused on the interlocking and complex interrelations between gods and humans....
 or Uni
Uni

:For the numerical prefix...
 and the father of Heracle
Heracle

Heracle in Etruscan mythology was the equivalent of the Greek hero Heracles from which he derives....
.

He was part of the powerful triumvirate
Triumvirate

The term triumvirate is commonly used to describe a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals. The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case....
 that included Menrva
Menrva

Menrva was an Etruscan mythology of war, art, wisdom and health. She contributed a lot of her character to Roman mythology Minerva.Though she was seen by Hellenized Etruscans as their counterpart to Greek mythology Athena, Menrva has some unique traits that makes it clear that she wasn't an import from Greece....
 and Uni
Uni (mythology)

Uni was the supreme goddess of the Etruscan mythology wiktionary:pantheon and the patron goddess of Perugia. Uni was identified by the Etruscans as their equivalent of Juno in Roman mythology and Hera in Greek mythology....
. He was associated with lightning, spears and scepters. In the Etruscan language
Etruscan language

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna , in Italy....
, tin or tinš means "day" and its plural is tinia showing that he is a god governing the passage of time
Time

Time is a component of the measurement used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify the motions of objects....
 (compare Father Time
Father Time

Father Time is a personification of time. He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping device ....
 and Ancient of Days
Ancient of Days

Ancient of Days is a name for God in Aramaic: Atik Yomin; in the Greek Septuagint: Palaios Hemeron; and in the Vulgate: Antiquus Dierum....
).

Some of Tinia's defining epithet
Epithet

An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
s are detailed on the Piacenza Liver
Haruspex

File:Haruspex.pngIn Ancient Rome practice inherited from the Etruscan civilization, a haruspex was a man trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy, hepatoscopy or hepatomancy....
, a bronze model of a liver used for haruspicy. Some of his epithets inscribed there include Tin Cilens, Tin Tuf and Tins Tne.

Some inscriptions in which he appears are as follows.
  • On a kylix painted by Oltos
    Oltos

    Oltos was a Late Archaic Greece Ancient Greece vase painter, active in Athens. From the time berween 525 BC and 500 BC, about 150 works by him are known....
     (ca 500 BC):
Itun turuce venel atelinas Tinas cliniiaras.
This has given Venel Atelinas for the sons of Tin (ie: The Dioscuri).


  • On the bronze Chimera of Arezzo:
Tinscvil
A gift to Tinia