Tages

Tages ( Tages ; either Tag or Tagey ) - in Etruscan mythology, the character is not a completely clear entity ^[1] .

The son of Genius (Genius Jovialis), the grandson of Jupiter , who transmitted to people the doctrine of divination (guessing the will of the gods). The legend says that Tages appeared from a groove on a field near Tarquinius , in the image of a boy, but with the mind of an old man. The crowd began to listen to his words and write them down: hence the doctrine of the art of the Haruspex arose. According to Cicero, this is an Etruscan boy who emerged from the earth ^[2] . He invented the auspices ^[3] and announced the science of fortune-telling on the guts ^[4] , after which he immediately died. According to the story of Ovid , this is a lump of land in Etruria, which assumed human form and began to prophesy ^[5] .

The main pupil of Tages was Baches , to whom he handed over the so-called Aherusian books . Tarhon Sr. recorded his poetic religious teaching ^[6] . According to this teaching, God created everything in six stages: in six thousand years, and the remaining 6000 years he took for the life of people ^[7] .

This doctrine was presented later by the Romans in special books - Etrusci libri, Etrusca disciplina, which Cicero mentions in his essay "De divinatione" (I, 33). In the 4th century the books of Taget and Vegona were known ^[8] .

There was a hypothesis about the comparison of the names Tag and Dagon ^[9] . In Thessaly Tagos - title.