Cloacina

In Roman mythology and culture, Cloacina, also spelled Cluacina, was a goddess who presided over the ancient Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drainage'): Rome's main sewer and drainage system.

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Deity.type: Roman
Deity.image: Coins-venus-cloacina.jpg
Deity.caption: Denarius of L. Mussidius Longus (42 BC) showing Concordia on the obverse, and two statues within the balustrade of the shrine of Venus Cloacina on the reverse
Deity.god_of: Goddess of the Cloaca Maxima
Deity.cult_center: Rome
Deity.gender: Female
Deity.temple: Shrine of Venus Cloacina
Deity.other_names: Venus Cloacina
Deity.symbol: Cloaca Maxima

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name in native language: Cloacina

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Name
Cloaca Maxima
Functions
As Venus Cloacina
Worship
Imagery
In literature
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In Roman mythology and culture, Cloacina, also spelled Cluacina, was a goddess who presided over the ancient Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drainage'): Rome's main sewer and drainage system.

Cloacina was associated with Venus, the Roman goddess of love and sexuality. Venus was bestowed with the epithet Venus Cloacina ('Venus the Purifier'), an entity that embodied the purifying aspect of her functions. A shrine to Venus Cloacina stood in the Roman Forum, along the Via Sacra.