Editing Fufluns (section)

==Myths==
Fufluns shares many myths with Dionysus, including the story of his birth, which parallels the story of [[Zeus]] and Semele.<ref name="Thomson2006p2">Thomson, De Grummond Nancy, Myth and Sacred History, 2006, p.{{nbs}}116</ref><ref>Bonfante and Swaddling, 2006, p.{{nbs}}52</ref> Like that myth, the pregnant Semla is killed by Tinia in the form of a lightning bolt, who then continues to bear Fufluns by sewing the infant into his thigh and later giving birth to him.<ref>Bonfante, 2016, ln.{{nbs}}12</ref> However, Semla continues to appear in artwork in association with an adult Fufluns after her death, indicating either a resurrection or immortalization of his mother.<ref>Bonfante and Swaddling, 2006, p.{{nbs}}74</ref>

Additionally, Fufluns's connection to his mother is sometimes cast as romantic, as seen in artwork that shows them in an embrace used elsewhere in Etruscan artwork to indicate erotic entanglement.<ref name="Thomson2006p2"/>

Another depiction of a lost myth regarding Fufluns depicts his relationship with Areatha, the Etruscan form of [[Ariadne]]. The bronze mirror shows Fufluns and Areatha but also includes additional figures that are not part of the Greek version of the myth, namely Castur (the Etruscan [[Castor and Pollux|Castor]]), a male figure called Eiasun ([[Jason]]) and a small winged figure identified as Aminth, who is attributed as the personification of love.<ref name="Thomson2006p3">Thomson, de Grummond Nancy, Myth and Sacred History, 2006, p.{{nbs}}119</ref> The implications of the scene are based on a myth that is no longer recorded, but indicate some disagreement between Eiasun and Fufluns in which Areatha is involved.<ref name="Thomson2006p3"/> The myth of Fuflun and Areatha itself follows the traditional Greek myth, in which Areatha is abandoned by [[Theseus]] after helping him escape the labyrinth of Minos. Fufluns then finds Areatha and falls in love with her, and they later marry.<ref>Bonfante and Swaddling, 2006, p.{{nbs}}41</ref>