ラールンダ
ラールンダ（Larunda）は、ローマ神話の女神[1]。本来はサビーニー人に由来する地下神だったのではないかという説がある[1]。
ニュンペーのララ（Lara）と同一視されるが、名前の音節の長短が異なるため、この同一視は本来的なものではありえないとされる[1]。
ラールンダ（Larunde、Laranda、Laraとも）は、オウィディウスの『Fasti』にでてくるアルモー川の娘で、ナイアスのニンフである[2] 。
オウィディウスによれば、ララはラティウムのアルモー河神の娘で、美しいがお喋りだった[1]。ユーピテルのユートゥルナへの恋をユーノーに漏らしたため、怒ったユーピテルがララの舌を切り取り、メルクリウスに命じて冥界へ連れて行かせた[1]。その途中でメルクリウスはララと交わりラレースが産まれた[1]。その後、ララは「黙せる女」を意味するムータ（Muta）またはタキタ（Tacita）と呼ばれ祭られた[1]。
神話
The only known mythography attached to Lara is little, late and poetic, coming to us from Ovid's Fasti. She was famous for both beauty and loquacity (a trait her parents attempted to curb). She was incapable of keeping secrets, and so revealed to Jupiter's wife Juno his affair with Juturna (Larunda's fellow nymph, and the wife of Janus). For betraying his trust, Jupiter cut out Lara's tongue and ordered Mercury, the psychopomp, to conduct her to Avernus, the gateway to the Underworld and realm of Pluto. Mercury, however, fell in love with Lara and prepared to force her as she pleaded with a glance, unable to speak. Lara thereby became mother to two children, referred to as the Lares, invisible household gods. However, she had to stay in a hidden cottage in the woods so that Jupiter would not find her.[2]
Larunda is likely identical with Muta "the mute one" and Tacita "the silent one", nymphs or minor goddesses.[3][4]
Etymology
Because she said to Juno the affair of Jupiter with Juturna, her name was connected with λαλεῖν, which means talk, speak in Greek.[5]
Cult
Ovid mentions the myth of Lara and Mercury in connection with the festival of Feralia on February 21.[2] Lara/Larunda is also sometimes associated with Acca Larentia,[6] whose feast day was the Larentalia on December 23.
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参照
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 高津春繁『ギリシア・ローマ神話辞典』岩波書店、1960年、299頁。
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ovid, Fasti 2, V. 599.
- ↑ Lactantius, The Divine Institutions, I. 20
- ↑ J. A. Hartung, Die Religion der Römer: Nach den Quellen, vol. II, p. 204
- ↑ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Larunda
- ↑ Cf. Acca Larentia, Roman Goddess and Mother of the Lares.2006 - via {{{via}}}.
