Averruncus
In ancient Roman religion, Averruncus or Auruncus is a god of averting harm. Aulus Gellius says that he is one of the potentially malignant deities who must be propitiated for their power to both inflict and withhold disaster from people and the harvests.[1]
Although the
Averruncus may have also been an aspect of Jupiter or another deity invoked specifically in a protective manner.[7]
References
- ^ Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 5.12.14: In istis autem diis, quos placari oportet, uti mala a nobis vel a frugibus natis amoliantur, Auruncus quoque habetur.
- ^ As in the note to Aulus Gellius in the Loeb Classical Library edition.
- Varro, De lingua latina 7.102.
- ^ Robert Turcan, The Gods of Ancient Rome (Routledge, 2001, originally published 1998), p. 41 online.
- ^ William Warde Fowler, The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (London, 1908), p. 89.
- Leo Allatios and Popular Orthodoxy (Brill, 2004), pp. 97–101 online(in connection with compelling demons).
- ^ More, Henry (1660). An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; or a True and Faithful Representation of the Everlasting Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
But the former seems rather a general name belonging to every Divine Power that is to be attoned to keep off mischief, then to any one particular Manifestation of the wrath of God in the World.
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