The origin of the name of the Vatican.
“The origin of the name of the Vatican is not biblical, nor Latin or Greek. The Etruscans took the place as a cemetery on a hillside outside an ancient city, which would eventually end up being Rome. The name of the Etruscan goddess that guarded the necropolis was Vatika. Another meaning of Vatika was a bitter grape of not very good flavor used by the peasants to produce cheap wine that together with an herb of the same name, were ingested experiencing hallucinations and the word was transmitted to Latin as a synonym for “prophetic vision.” The Latin word predictor means “to predict, to prophesy” of vatis “poet, teacher, oracle.”
