See also: Lucine, Lucina

Lucine (Latin: Lucina ) is the goddess gréco-Roman who chairs and who protects the women at the time of the Accouchement. Later, Lucine is an epithet for Junon like " That which puts children at the lumière". Its name is perhaps derived from lucus (" bosquet") according to the thicket crowned of trees Lottos on the Esquilin associated with the goddess and looked after by the Vestal S.

The legend

Whereas Myrrha is metamorphosed in Myrrhe and that it is about to be confined, Lucine comes to assist it so that this test occurs as well as possible. Adonis will be born, and in spite of fears of everyone (indeed, it is the son of its grandfather; his/her mother dedicating a passion morbid and devouring for her father, it will succeed in sleeping with him and will fall pregnant then when his/her father includes/understands with whom he slept, it leaves the house to exile himself in the forest and asks of the assistance the gods which, to relieve it of his weight, transformed it into myrrh), he is the most beautiful child and manages to make succumb the goddess Aphrodite.

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