Who You Journey With
© Surazeus
2026 06 12

Who you journey with on rough road of life
is far more important than where you go,
so I keep you within scope of my eyes
with attentive care to our circumstance
to ensure your precious spirit is safe
while I gather fresh fruit for you to eat.

When Juturna finds creek of clear cold water
trickling in thick woods between rugged hills,
she follows sparkle of light into gloom
till she finds spring that fountains from dark earth,
so she proclaims to Janus with sweet voice
that she has now found their forever home.

Calling out to her mother, Rumina,
older woman with long hair and green eyes,
Juturna guides her to the fountain grove
where they rest in shade of the broad fig tree
as Janus plucks sweet fruit for them to eat,
then brings them water in new turtle shells.

Janus builds temple beside broad fig tree
with oak for foundation of the firm floor,
four silver firs as columns for roof beams,
and cypress for walls and two sturdy doors,
around stone hearth that preserves flame of light
where Juturna and Rumina cook meals.

When Juturna exclaims two cows are gone,
Janus and their son Quirinus grab wands
and track the cows to large bone-littered cave
where the grim giant Cacus snarls in rage,
so while Janus distracts him with sharp spear
Quirinus leaps on his back with thick vine.

After strangling greedy Cacus to death,
Quirinus explores dark cave with bright lamp
where he finds large diamond that glitters clear
as ice-white silver moon on winter nights,
so they bear it back to their temple home
where Janus sets it firm on altar stone.

Gazing deep in crystal sphere of pure light,
Juturna sings verse of oracle spells
describing visions she sees with her mind
how the first flash flares forth from the big bang
so threads of sparkling light form spinning globe
from which gods and humans spring into life.

When pregnant Juturna goes into labor,
Rumina attends process of childbirth,
then washes the new-born girl clean with care,
so while Juturna nurses her with love
Janus bestows name Carmenta with pride
and gazes in eyes of his reborn mother.

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Orpheus meets Carmenta on the peak of the Palatine Hill where she stands on a large flat stone and proclaims that one day man will fly to the moon.

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