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The discussion on Etruscan religion and deities (aiser)1 remains very abstract, unless we define time and place. The way the Etruscans dealt with religious matters was praised by ancient authors, though they cannot have fully understood it. A massive Greek impact is clear especially in the coastal territory, which has led many to believe that the Etruscans were entirely Hellenized. Countless depictions show that Greek myths were, indeed, adopted and well-known to the Etruscans, but not always in complete contexts, and the gods themselves were composed of more complex elements. A major characteristic of the Etruscans was that they adopted, rather selectively, not only ‘foreign’ material goods, styles and iconographies, but also ideas, whether belonging to the secular or the sacred world, and adapted them to their own culture.4