Lara
Publié le 17/01/2022
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(Lala; Larunda; The talker) Roman Originally,
a Sabine goddess who presided over houses.
Later a nymph, a daughter of the river Tiber or the
river Almo, known for her inability to keep a secret.
Little information remains about the Sabine goddess,
but her story as a nymph lives on in the works of
Roman poets.
Lara suffered a price for her chatter. When
Jupiter, who was married to Juno, wanted the help
of the nymphs to seduce the goddess Juterna, he
swore them all to silence then told them of their roles
in his plans to capture Juterna, who kept avoiding
him. Since childhood, Lara had been unable to keep
a secret, so she spread word of the great god's plans.
She told Juno and Juterna. Some sources say that
telling both the wife and the love interest was a sign
of Lara's great disapproval of Jupiter's actions. Others
say she was essentially a gossip.
Jupiter avenged himself against Lara by pulling
out her tongue and sentencing her to life in the
silence of the Underworld. He charged his son
Mercury with delivering the nymph, but Mercury
fell in love with her on the way and made love to
her—some sources say he raped her—and hid her in
a grove of trees where she bore him twin sons.
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