Fauna
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Roman An ancient goddess of healing
and productivity of the Earth. Fauna was also a goddess
of chastity and of fertility in women. Fauna was
either the sister or the wife of Faunus, an equally old
Roman god of nature and fertility.
As a prophetess, she was called Fatua, and as a
goddess she was also known by some as Bona Dea,
which means "good goddess." In some stories, Fauna
and Hercules, the Roman version of the Greek
Heracles, fall in love when the hero arrives in Italy.
Together they are the parents of Latinus, who
becomes the king of the people of the Latium region
of central Italy.