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Meaning of cloacina



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

cloacina
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Relative to sewers or sewers. Name of a goddess who ruled in the Cloaca Maxima in Rome. Protective goddess of marital affair.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Cloacina : Goddess of the sewers of Rome, created by the last kings and almost finished by Tarquinius the Sovereign, whom the people of Rome ended up expelling for their cruelty. They also called her Colatinar, the Purifier, the goddess of faeces and intercourse. Venus Cloacina had its circular sanctuary on the Via Sacra on the Maximum Sewer.

  










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