Natural marble sitting goddess lady Fortuna statue

Fortuna is equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche is the goddess of luck and the incarnation of luck in Roman religion.

Fortuna is one of the oldest goddesses in Roman mythology. As the goddess of fortune, she is in charge of human happiness and opportunity. Among Western idols, Fortuna often holds a horn that symbolizes abundance and prosperity in one hand, and a rudder that governs people’s fortune in the other, standing on a rotating flywheel. Westerners believe that wherever the rudder in Fortuna’s hand and the flywheel under her feet turn, it takes people’s fortunes. However, due to the change of direction, the flywheel at the feet of Fortuna is also used to symbolize the impermanence of misfortune and fortune, and punish those who are greedy.

The god of wealth is often depicted as having a gubernaculum (rudder of a ship), a ball or Rota Fortunae (wheel of fortune, first mentioned by Cicero) and a cornucopia (horn of fertility). She may bring good or bad luck: she can be portrayed as masked and blind, just like the modern portrayal of the goddess of justice, except that Fortuna has no balance. Fortuna came to represent the volatility of life. She is also the goddess of fate: as Atrox Fortuna, she took the young lives of Gaius and Lucius, grandsons of Prince Augustus, who are the future heirs of the empire.