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In Etruscan mythology
Etruscan mythology
The Etruscans were a diachronically continuous population, with a distinct language and culture during the period of earliest European writing, in the Mediterranean Iron Age in the second half of the first millennium BC...

, Fufluns (or Puphluns) was a god of plant life, happiness, wine, health and growth in all things. He is the son of Semla
Semla (mythology)
Semla is the Etruscan name for the Greek goddess Semele from which she derives. Her name is sometimes misspelled Semia.An Etruscan mirror from the 4th century BCE shows a woman inscribed as Semla holding a thyrsus and kissing the young Puphluns as he embraces her beside the presence of Apulu who...

. He was worshipped at Populonia
Populonia
Populonia or Populonia Alta today is a frazione of the comune of Piombino . As of 2009 its population was 17...

(Etruscan “Fufluna” or “Pupluna”).
He was adopted by the Romans, but was quickly replaced with other Italic gods of fertility.
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