Aisar

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The Aisar are a pantheon of deities close to the ancient culture of the Etruscans. Their original pantheon consisted of Catha and Usil, the sun; Tivr, the moon; Selvans, a civil god; Turan, the goddess of love; Laran, the god of war; Leinth, the goddess of death; Maris, Thalna, Turms and the god Vanth.

The Olympian gods had adapted to their new names under the rising cultural influence of Rome; former gods of the ancient Roman Numa were absorbed as the harmony of their ideology adapted to fit the Greek model. Several lesser gods ceased to exist, were incorporated into the Olympian pantheon, or were expelled to wander the world without worshippers.

As the Romans integrated the Etruscans, the harmony of the Aisar waned and was incorporated into the power of the Olympian portfolios. Potent gods, such as Apollo and Zeus, absorbed their Etruscan equivalent and integrated it into the Olympian ideology. In the space of two centuries, the gods of the Etruscans were supplanted by their more potent Olympian neighbors.