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Lucina was married to Atticus. They lived on a farm in the Istrian Valley and had two sons: Jason and Marcus. After a fever spread through the Istrian Valley, killing her children, Lucina could not bear to be with her husband because he reminded her so much of their children. She left home and wandered, eventually finding herself working at a "Pleasure Palace" in Enola. A local gangster named Pilot took a liking to her and offered her protection in exchange for her services.
Atticus followed Lucina to Enola and, with the help of Hercules, was able to convince her to come home with him where they could remember the good times they had together and try to rebuild their life.
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 which were used to track female fertility as well as measure the duration of a pregnancy. Priests of Juno called her by the epithet Juno Covella on the new moon.[1] The title might alternately have been derived from lucus ("grove") after a sacred grove of lotus trees on the Esquiline Hill associated with Juno, later the site of her temple.[citation needed]
Juno Lucina was chief among a number of deities who influenced or guided every aspect of birth and child development, such as Vagitanus, who opened the newborn's mouth to cry, and Fabulinus, who enabled the child's first articulate speech. The collective di nixi were birth goddesses, and had an altar in the Campus Martius.
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