Demonology
Demonology
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Alpan ("willing, with gladness), was no doubt demonized with the rise of Christianity, her name pulled from Etruscan mythology. Alpan, one of the Lasa (Fate-Goddesses), was made into the demon of love, springtime, and the underworld. Her name translates to mean "gift" or "offering," but the implication is that the gift is made with a degree of implied willingness.

Commanding the underworld, she is depicted as a nude woman with wings, sometimes holding a bouquet of flowers or leaves, or a perfume-jar called an alabastron. She was most powerful during the season of spring.

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