Tutilina

Tutilina (also Tutelina, Tutulina)[2] was in Roman religion a tutelary goddess, apparently responsible for protecting crops brought in during harvest time.

[3][8] Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia, Tertullian's De spectaculis, and Macrobius's Saturnalia all attest to statues of three goddesses, including Tutilina, in the Circus Maximus.

[9]Augustine of Hippo's De civitate Dei mentions Tutilina alongside other gods and goddesses in a passage complaining about the number of pagan deities: how is it possible in one passage of this book to record all the names of the gods and goddesses that they were scarcely able to find room for in the huge volumes in which they divided up the services of the deities among the departments, assigning each to his own?

André Vernet argued that this name originated as a masculine variant, Tutilinus, of Tutilina, invented by medieval scholars on the basis of their knowledge of this pagan goddess through Augustine's City of God.

[11] Tutelina Mill, Great Welnetham, built in the nineteenth century, shares its name with the goddess.