Horta (mythology)
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Horta is an improbable Etruscan
goddess
of agriculture
or placename. This is based on a conjecture that the personal name Hurtate- is based on a root name *Hurta and on a chance similarity with the Latin word hortus "garden.".
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...
goddess
Goddess
A goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing....
of agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
or placename. This is based on a conjecture that the personal name Hurtate- is based on a root name *Hurta and on a chance similarity with the Latin word hortus "garden.".