The things you learn.
Jan. 5th, 2007 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreamsThe Romans had a deity named Cloacina, or the Venus Cloacina[1]--literally, the Venus of the Sewers.[1]
With a shrine--the Cloacina Sacrum--in the Roman Forum.
That had access to the Cloaca Maxima.
(I blinked over this, and went to relay the information to John. He pointed out that the Romans were sewer fetishists. I really cannot dispute this, and I have noticed that it's occasionally difficult to swing a dead wolf in Ancient Rome without running across one deity or another.
(It's just that my modern mind is having a little trouble processing the concept of a *Venus* of the *Sewers*.)
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[1] Mad cross-referencing and the lateness of the hour causes me to drag in a reference to "Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop", thank you Yeats.
With a shrine--the Cloacina Sacrum--in the Roman Forum.
That had access to the Cloaca Maxima.
(I blinked over this, and went to relay the information to John. He pointed out that the Romans were sewer fetishists. I really cannot dispute this, and I have noticed that it's occasionally difficult to swing a dead wolf in Ancient Rome without running across one deity or another.
(It's just that my modern mind is having a little trouble processing the concept of a *Venus* of the *Sewers*.)
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[1] Mad cross-referencing and the lateness of the hour causes me to drag in a reference to "Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop", thank you Yeats.
