Juturne

Juturne (or Juturna ) was the Roman goddess of the fountains , the well and the sources.

Legends

According to some, it would be with its source that Castor and Pollux made drink their horses after the Bataille of the lake Régille.

Temple

A temple was dedicated to him to Rome with the Champs of Mars by C. Lutatius Catulus, which respected its word in 241 av. J.C during a great naval battle around the Sicily in the first Punic War.

To Rome a well is devoted to him, on the Forum, beside the temple of Vesta.

Bonds with the divinities

She would have been liked of Jupiter, which thanked it by granting immortality and control to him for the sources. This liason secret would have been betrayed by another nymph, Lara (or Larunda), that Jupiter punishes while making it dumb. Fontus would be the son whom it would have had with Janus, his/her husband.

Vigil, in Énéide , makes of it at the same time the girl of the goddess Vénilia, ancient divinity of Fresh water sometimes regarded as the parèdre of Neptune sometimes like that of Janus, and the sister of the king rutule Turnus; she metamorphoses herself in her coachman Metiscus and the sword forged by Vulcan returns to him which had lost it. She was obliged by a Furie sent by Jupiter, to leave her brother to her destiny, and turned over while crying to her fountain.

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