Geography/Culture: Roman.
Linguistic Note: proably related to Latin vortex, vertere, to turn, from IndoEuropean root wer-. There are many related turn words including: inward, worth, stalwart, weird, versatile, verse, version, versus, vertebra, vertex, adverse, anniversary, avert, controversy, convert, divert, invert, pervert, prose, universe, wreath, writhe, wrath, worry, wring, wrong, wrench, wrinkle, converge, wry, wriggle, wrist, wrestle, briar, warp, reverberate, wrap, rhapsody, worm, vermin.
Description: Oracular Goddess of the year and fate; She Who urges reproduction; Controller of destinies; Matron of gardeners, and of women seeking conception.
To Whom Sacred: oak; cornucopia; wheel (of the year); ship's prow and rudder; sphere.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps variant: Fortuna, She-Who-Brings, below.
• See also Pomona, Apple-Queen.

Geography/Culture: Roman.
Linguistic Note: from Latin fors, fort-, chance.
Description: Oracular Goddess of destiny, fortune and good luck; She Who is worshipped by women desiring offspring, and gardeners seeking a good yield.
To Whom Sacred: globe, sphere, or ball (on which She is often represented standing, (this is said to indicate the mutability of Her favours); wheel (symbolizing the precariousness of things in this life); cornucopia (which She holds in one hand while distributing luck from it with the other); rudder (with which She guides the world's affairs).
Iconography: She is often veiled or blindfolded.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called: Fors, F4S, Force, or Fors is said to be the later form of Her name.
• {Presumed Daughter of Juno, {Shining-One}, since under Her alternate name of Primigenia, She is the Daughter of Jupiter}.
• Also called: Primigenia, First-Born, (of Jupiter).
• Sur-title, Redux, ----. Fortuna-Redux had a temple in the Campus Martus.
• She became merged with Greek Tyche, Fortune, as Goddess of the destiny of the human community.
• Sur-title Virginensis, ----, (Fortuna-Virginensis) as protectress of newly married women.
• Sur-title Virilis, -----, (Fortuna-Virilis), below.
• Perhaps variant of Vortumna, She-Who-Turns-the-Year-About, above.

Geography/Culture: Roman.
Description: Goddess of virility; She Who makes women irresistable to men; Preserver of women's beauty.
In Her name Roman matrons regularly invaded the men's public baths seeking luck.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Surname of Fortuna, She-Who-Brings, above.
• Juno, {Shining-One}, is sometimes sur-titled Virilis, ----, (Juno-Virilis).