Menrva’s Family Tree

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Family

• Tinia(parent)— Miraculous

  Menrva sprang fully formed from the head of Tinia, a scene carved on Etruscan bronze mirrors that echoes the Greek birth of Athena yet belongs wholly to Etruscan cultic tradition.

Member of

• Etruscan Triad

  Tinia, Uni, and Menrva formed the Etruscan Triad worshipped in three-celled Etruscan temples, a cultic grouping that the Romans inherited wholesale as the Capitoline Triad.

Equivalent to

• Athena(Greek),Minerva(Roman)

  Menrva, Athena, and Minerva represent the same virgin goddess of wisdom and war across Etruscan, Greek, and Roman tradition — the Etruscan Menrva passed directly into Roman religion as Minerva, and Etruscan mirrors depict her in the same mythological scenes as Greek Athena.

Associated with

• Elcsntre,Turan,Uni

  Turan, Uni, and Menrva stood before Elcsntre in the Etruscan rendering of the Judgment of Paris, one of the most beloved scenes on bronze mirrors — Turan triumphant as the chosen goddess of beauty and desire.