Semla (mythology)
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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 holds a laurel branch. A boy with a small horsetail plays pipes.
Semele
Semele , in Greek mythology, daughter of the Boeotian hero Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his many origin myths. In another version of his mythic origin, he is the son of Persephone...
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
Thyrsus
In Greek mythology, a thyrsus or thyrsos was a staff of giant fennel covered with ivy vines and leaves, sometimes wound with taeniae and always topped with a pine cone. These staffs were carried by Dionysus and his followers. Euripides wrote that honey dripped from the thyrsos staves that the...
and kissing the young Puphluns
Fufluns
In Etruscan mythology, Fufluns was a god of plant life, happiness, wine, health and growth in all things. He is the son of Semla. He was worshipped at Populonia ....
as he embraces her beside the presence of Apulu
Aplu
Aplu may mean:*Aplu, a Hurrian deity of the plague: cf. Luwian Apaliunas, Etruscan Apulu, Greek Apollo.*An acronym for the Association_of_Public_and_Land-Grant_Universities ....
who holds a laurel branch. A boy with a small horsetail plays pipes.