Fufluns’s Family Tree

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Family

• Semla(parent),Tinia(parent)— Consort

  Fufluns was born from the union of Tinia and the mortal Semla, his divine parentage depicted on Etruscan mirrors where mother and son appear together in scenes of nursing and eventual apotheosis.

Equivalent to

• Bacchus(Roman),Dionysus(Greek)

  Fufluns is the Etruscan counterpart of Dionysus and Bacchus, depicted on bronze mirrors with his mother Semla in scenes drawn directly from the Greek Dionysiac myth cycle and adopted into Etruscan religious art.