Tellus
Tellus is a nocturnal divinity addressed in the Carmen Saeculare. She is mentioned alongside Lucina or Ilithyia and the Parcae in five stanzas dedicated to the nocturnal divinities. Tellus appears as one of the divine recipients invoked in this Roman ritual hymn.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in pre-Imperial Roman religious tradition.
Relationships
Mentioned by
- Tec
- Gilva
- Apollo
- Diana
- Jupiter
- Lucina
- Parcae
- Ilithyia
- Terra
- Bhumi
- Gaia
- Dyaus
- Prithvi
- Agni
- Demeter
- Storm-God
and 1 more
Sources
Source passages
“the next 5 for the nocturnal divinities (Lucina or Ilithyia, the Parcae and Tellus)”
#19784 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Roman evidence for the idea of Earth as a mother is doubtful, as it is usually associated with the name Terra rather than Tellus (the pre-Imperial earth-goddess)”
#26795 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Varro links Vesta to Tellus. He says: 'They think Tellus... is Vesta, because she is "vested" in flowers'.”
#34693 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In January, Ceres (alongside the earth-goddess Tellus) was offered spelt wheat and a pregnant sow, at the movable Feriae Sementivae.”
#46284 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free