Śuri

Sources preserve a legend reported by Servius: after sacrificial portions were stolen by wolves and shepherds pursued them into a cave on Mount Soracte where suffocating fumes killed them, a pestilence followed. An oracle replied that the plague would cease when the inhabitants, like wolves, began to lead a robber life; the people then took the name Hirpi Sorani and devoted themselves to the cult of Soranus. Linguistically, the theonym derives from Etruscan śur (𐌑𐌖𐌛) meaning 'black' or 'from the black [place]', a term that marks the god's liminal connection to both the underworld and volcanic/fiery phenomena, but the etymology is a linguistic explanation rather than a separate mythic genealogy.

Attested iconographies vary: a crowned young man wielding a spear or bow; an enthroned black-bearded man wearing a wolf-skin cap or with a wolf-like aspect; and a winged humanoid monster often shown wielding a sledgehammer or sword. Wolves and goats are recorded as animals associated with Śuri and appear in his ritual and visual entourage.

Śuri is presented as an infernal, volcanic, and solar-fire god associated with volcanic fire and volcanic lightning, and with the sun and the Manes/underworld. He is connected to communal health and plague dynamics and functions as an oracular deity; he is also counted among thunder-associated deities (Novensiles). Ritual specialists (Hirpi Sorani) perform fire-related rites and ornithomancy in his cult.