The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(also Alpanu, Alpnu) An Etruscan goddess, variously portrayed as winged or unwinged, belonging to the female demons known as → Lasas.
She is naked except for a cloak which hardly conceals her body, she is richly bejewelled and wears light sandals. The evidence strongly suggests that she was a goddess of the art of love, but she also possesses traits that mark her as a goddess of the underworld.
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