Vejovis

Vejovis or Vejove (Latin: Vฤ“iovis or Vฤ“diovis; rare Vฤ“ive or Vฤ“dius) was a Roman god of Etruscan origins (Etruscan: ๐Œ”๐Œ‰๐Œ•๐Œ„๐Œ…, romanized:ย Vetis, or ๐Œ”๐Œ‰๐Œ…๐Œ‰๐Œ„๐Œ…, Veivis).

: Licinia 16; sear5 #274; Cr354/1; Syd 732 Vejovis was portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows (or lightning bolts), or a pilum, in his hand, and accompanied by a goat.

[4][5] Aulus Gellius, in the Noctes Atticae, written around 177 CE,[6] speculated that Vejovis was an ill-omened counterpart of Jupiter; compare Summanus.

Aulus Gellius observes that the particle ve- that prefixes the name of the god also appears in Latin words such as vesanus, "insane," and thus interprets the name Vejovis as the anti-Jove.

Gellius informs us that Vejovis received the sacrifice of a female goat, sacrificed ritu humano;[7] this obscure phrase could either mean "after the manner of a human sacrifice" or "in the manner of a burial.