Lucina

Family: Olympian gods · Role: goddess of childbirth · First appears: Fable 49

Life events

• Adonis is born from the transformed Myrrha with Lucina’s assistance.(Fable90)
  • With: Myrrha Adonis
  • “Gentle Lucina stands by the moaning boughs, and applies her hands, and utters words that promote delivery. The tree gapes open, in chinks, and through the cleft bark it discharges the living burden.”

Fable 49

• with Evippe (Lucina is invoked by Evippe during childbirth.) “Pierus, rich in the lands of Pella,[32] begot them; the Pæonian[33] Evippe[34] was their mother. Nine times did she invoke the powerful Lucina, being nine times in labor.”

Fable 90

• with Adonis (Lucina assists at the birth of Adonis.) “Gentle Lucina stands by the moaning boughs, and applies her hands, and utters words that promote delivery.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.