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Diana Lucina: The Virgin Goddess of Childbirth

June 11, 2026 by Theo Mercer

Diana Lucina standing in a Roman sanctuary beside a mother and newborn child

Moments after her own birth, the newborn Diana turned and helped her mother deliver her twin Apollo. The virgin who would never bear a child of her own was a midwife before she was an hour old.

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