Etruscan · God or goddess · Certain
Calu

Calu is an indigenous Etruscan underworld deity attested by ritual and funerary language and by an inscribed bronze canid from Cortona. The animal is variously read as wolf, wolf-hound, or hound, so the image preserves a canid rather than forcing a species.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
No direct correspondence has sufficient reviewed evidence here yet.
Archive scope and classification
- Figure classification
- God or goddess · certain
- Pantheon or tradition shelf
- Etruscan
- Cultures
- Etruscan
- Traditions
- Etruscan religious traditions
- Periods
- Unspecified
- Places
- Unspecified
Identity and a conservative image prompt are grounded in accession-level historical comparanda; textual, cultic, and relational extraction remains incomplete.
