Cinxia

Cinxia is the Roman goddess who functions with the belt that a bride wore to symbolize that her husband is "belted and bound" to her. It was tied with the knot of Hercules, intended to be intricate and difficult to untie. Augustine calls her Virginiensis, indicating that the untying of the knot is the symbolic loss of virginity.

Women who had experienced miscarriages were advised to bind their stomachs for the full nine months with a belt of wool from a lamb fed upon by a wolf.

Cinxia was also an epithet of the goddess Juno.