Fortuna
A powerful deity among the ancients, daughter of Oceanus, according to Homer, or one of the Parcae, according to Pindar. She was the goddess of Fortune, and bestowed riches or poverty on mankind.
Fortunatae or -orum Insulae (The Islands of the Blessed). The early Greeks, as we learn from Homer, placed the Elysian Fields, into which favored heroes passed without dying, at the extremity of the earth, near the river Oceanus. In poems later than Homer an island is spoken of as their abode; and though its position was of course indefinite, the poets, and the geographers who followed them, placed it beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Hence, when certain islands were discovered in the ocean, off the west coast of Africa, the name of Fortunatae Insulae was applied to them. They are now called the Canary and Madeira islands. or