Diana (mythology) of the entire Roman state, the kind of worship that would have been typical at her Aventine temple, with a more personal form of devotion. Images of Diana and her associated myths have been found on sarcophagi of wealthy Romans. They often included scenes depicting sacrifices to the goddess, and on at least one example, the deceased man is shown joining Diana's hunt. Diana was initially a hunting goddess and goddess of the local woodland at Nemi, but as her worship spread, she acquired attributes of other similar goddesses. As she became conflated with Artemis, she became a moon goddess,
Aurora (mythology) narrator, Lucy Snowe: "All this, I say, was done between the moment of Madame Beck's issuing like Aurora from her chamber, and that in which she coolly sat down to pour out her first cup of coffee." Aurora (mythology) Aurora () is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Like Greek "Eos" and Rigvedic "Ushas", "Aurora" continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, "Hausos". In Roman mythology, Aurora renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun. Her parentage was flexible: for Ovid,