I am here at the Tiber River, the birthplace of worship for the Roman/Etruscan deity Volturnus
Little is known about Volturnus, although scholars have attempted to reconstruct his myth and role in theĀ cultus deorum. Volturnus is known to have been an agricultural God, and surviving fragments show he was specifically a river God. Like other ancient Gods, his cult was overshadowed and obscured by a religious reformation, probably in the 4th century BCE. By the time of Varro (116 BCE - 27 BCE), a scholar who collected the surviving materials, there were only traces left of Rome's earliest religion. He reported the survival of a Flamen Volturnalis, but found the God to be "obscure".















