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A goddess suckling a toddler and seated in the wicker chair characteristic of Gallo-Roman goddesses (2nd or 3rd century, Bordeaux) Lucina as a title of the birth goddess is usually seen as a metaphor for bringing the newborn into the light (lux, lucis). [59] Luces, plural ("lights"), can mean "periods of light, daylight hours, days."
The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
Vesta (mythology) Coin issued under Nero: the reverse depicts the cult statue of Vesta, holding a patera and scepter, within her hexastyle temple. Vesta (Classical Latin: [ˈwɛs.ta]) is the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman religion. She was rarely depicted in human form, and was more often represented by the fire of her ...
Minerva. Minerva (/ məˈnɜːrvə /; Latin: [mɪˈnɛru̯ä]; Etruscan: Menrva) is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. She is also a goddess of warfare, though with a focus on strategic warfare, rather than the violence of gods such as Mars. [2]
Unlike the Greek gods, Roman gods were originally considered to be numina: divine powers of presence and will that did not necessarily have physical form. At the time Rome was founded, Diana and the other major Roman gods probably did not have much mythology per se, or any depictions in human form.
Venus (/ ˈviːnəs /) [a] is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor.
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Lucina (mythology) In ancient Roman religion, Lucina was a title or epithet given to the goddess Juno, [1] and sometimes to Diana, [2] in their roles as goddesses of childbirth who safeguarded the lives of women in labor. The title lucina (from the Latin lux, lucis, "light") links both Juno and Diana to the light of the Moon, the cycles of ...