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Volupta, Voluptas, Pleasure

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The goddess of pleasure, the beautiful daughter of Cupid and Psyche in Roman folklore...

 

She is often found in the company of the Charites, or Three Graces, and she is known as the goddess of "sensual pleasures" whose Latin name means "pleasure" or "bliss".


Hedone is her Greek counterpart.

 

Volupta's opposites are the Algea, or pains...

 

 

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