Lucina’s Connections

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Aspect of

• Diana

  Diana Lucina presides over childbirth, invoked by Roman women in labor to bring the child safely into the light. The huntress who protects wild animals in the forests extends that fierce guardianship to mothers and newborns.

  ⚠ Juno was also identified with Lucina in a separate tradition (Ovid, Fasti 2.449), creating overlapping claims to the childbirth goddess.

• Juno

  Lucina is the childbirth aspect of Juno, invoked as Juno Lucina by women in labor to bring their children safely into the light.

Equivalent to

• Eileithyia(Greek)

  Eileithyia and Lucina are the Greek and Roman faces of the same birth goddess, invoked by laboring women to bring their children safely into the light.