Satre or Satres was an Etruscan god who appears on the Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model used for

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. He occupies the dark and negative northwest region, and seems to be a "frightening and dangerous god who hurls his lightning from his abode deep in the earth." It is possible that Satre is also referred to with the word "" in the '' Liber Linteus'' ("Linen Book," IX.3), the Etruscan text preserved in

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as mummy wrappings. Satre is usually identified with the Roman god

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, who in a description by

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holds a position similar to that of Satre on the liver. The name ''Satre'' may be only an Etruscan translation of ''Saturnus'', or ''Saturnus'' may derive from the Etruscan; it is also possible that the two deities are unrelated. No image in Etruscan art has been identified as Satre: "this deity remains a riddle."Simon, "Gods in Harmony," p. 59.

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* {{deity-stub Etruscan gods Saturn (mythology) Saturnian deities