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Foundation of the Etruscan temple in Tarquinia, stage of the legend Tages.

Tages is a god of Etruscan mythology, assimilated by the Romans.

One day came from a clod of earth, beneath a farmer's plow, near Tarquinia. His size was that of a dwarf, but from his birth and childhood, despite appearances, uttered words of profound wisdom: it was he who taught divination and aruspicine to the Etruscans. He is credited with prophetic books (libri rituals). He taught the art of reading the future in the bowels of a sacrificial animal (hieroscopy and hepatoscopy). Bibliography

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