Mater Matuta from Etruscan culture, 6th-5h C. BCE
"Shall Ino, whom the Greeks call Leucothea, and we Matuta, be reputed a Goddess, because she was the daughter of Cadmus, and shall that title be refused to Circe and Pasiphae, who had the sun for their father, and Perseis, daughter of the Ocean, for their mother? It is true, Circe has divine honors paid her by our colony of Circæum; therefore you call her a Goddess; but what will you say of Medea, the granddaughter of the Sun and the Ocean, and daughter of Æetes and Idyia? What will you say of her brother Absyrtus, whom Pacuvius calls Ægialeus, though the other name is more frequent in the writings of the ancients? If you did not deify one as well as the other, what will become of Ino? for all these Deities have the same origin."
-Cicero, The Nature of the Gods: Book III, Chapter XIX
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| Mater Matuta, Mother Goddess figure - from Etruscan culture, found Tufa, circa 6th-5h c. BCE - at the Etruscan Museum, Rome. |
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