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InRoman mythology,Canens was the personification of song. Anymph fromLatium, she was the daughter ofJanus andVenilia.[1]
Because Canens' husbandPicus scorned the love of the witchCirce, she turned him into a woodpecker. Canens searched for her husband for six days and then threw herself into theTiber river. She sang one final song and then died. They had one son,Faunus.
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