<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mads xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mads/" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mads/
mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">Etruscan religion</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>Etruscan</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>religions</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>religion, Etruscan</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Religion of the ancient Etruscans, involving complex rules regulating a large number of rituals. Heavily based on influences from Greece in its orientalizing period, but the religion of Etruria proclaims a very un-Greek view of the abasement and nonentity of man before the gods and their will. Known from the Mediterranean Iron Age in the second half of the first millennium BCE.  ]]></note></mads>