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Aita
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Also known as Eita

thumb|Fresco of Hades ("Aita", right) and Persephone ("Φersipnei", middle) leading a procession. Tomb of Orcus|Tomb of Orcus II, [[Tarquinia]] thumb|Tomba Golini, Orvieto

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Named after
Hades
Gender
male
Image
Hades Persephone Tomb of Orcus II.jpg
Said to be same as
Pluto
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worshipped by
Etruscan mythology
Commons category
Aita (mythology)
used by
Śuri
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thumb|Fresco of Hades ("Aita", right) and Persephone ("Φersipnei", middle) leading a procession. Tomb of Orcus|Tomb of Orcus II, [[Tarquinia]] thumb|Tomba Golini, Orvieto

Aita (), also spelled Eita (), is an epithet of the Etruscan chthonic fire god Śuri as god of the underworld, roughly equivalent to the Greek god Hades ().

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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