Fortuna

Fortuna

Fortuna. The Roman personification of fortune, luck, and chance appears frequently in ancient Celtic iconography, although she is not recorded as having a Celtic name. She is usually portrayed with a characteristic wheel or a rudder on a globe, implying an instant, random change in direction. Her wheel may associate her with the Celtic sun-god, whose solar symbol is also identified with the wheel. She is often depicted with the Gaulish Mercury and with Rosmerta, goddess of prosperity; her worship may have contributed to the depiction of Celtic divinities, especially Rosmerta and Nehalennia, a mother-goddess.

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Fortuna

Fortuna , in Roman religion, goddess of fortune. Worshiped under several forms, she appears to have originally been a goddess of fertility. She was later identified with Tyche, the Greek goddess of chance, and like her was represented with a ship's rudder and a cornucopia.

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