Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 65
t,those are meant who make itrather freely than otherwise. The old root of Mars, re-marks Preller, seems to beMar or Mas, and indicates, thevirile strength of a generatingand inspiring deity, who wasoriginally a god of vatnye, butwhom later ages reduced tosimply a god of war. From viarcame by… … deity of marriage tiiid of marriedgoddess of love and of desire. 50 ETRUSCAN ROMAN REMAINS. If Maso be Mars, it is probable that we have him here known only by hisfirst name and earliest attributes. My informant positively denied that Maso wasin this case only the diminutive of Tommaso, or…
Folklore · Superstition
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