Earliest Latin Quotes on Religion

(July 16, 2025) After the Great Drought of 1270 BCE with its resulting migration of peoples, Roman, Etruscan, and Greek culture ended up being more Indo-European than northern Europe and the Levant. Both Roman and Etruscan culture started out using Akkadian runic writing but wars with its runic writing neighbors triggered a nationalist reaction causing Rome to suppress that heritage, adopt Greek culture, and create their own writing system out of their own native language (Latin, being a mix of Akkadian and Indo-European). Meanwhile, the Etruscans continued to write in the Akkadian runic style until conquered by Rome although they must have been speaking something similar to Latin by this time. (Runic Akkadian was the Latin of the Pagan era written long after the locals were speaking something else.)