Thanr is an Etruscan Goddess of Childbirth and Midwives. She is usually shown
with Her associates Thalna and Ethausva
assisting in scenes of divine or miraculous birth. Like Her companions, Thanr
is sometimes shown with great wings, and is usually richly dressed. She is
depicted on two mirror-backs (commonly decorated with scenes from myth) steadying
the newborn Menrva (Athene) as She is born fully grown, fully clothed, and
fully armed from Tinia's (Zeus's) head.
Thanr's name means "scarcity" or "subtlety", in opposition
to the Goddess personifying plenty, Ops.
