Of Silence and Song. Dan Beachy-Quick

      Numa was the second king of Rome, born on the same day the city he would rule had been founded. They came into the world together.

      It is said he knew Pythagoras and so followed the inner laws of silence.

      After his mortal wife passed away he wandered the fields and in the quiet grasses a goddess consorted with him. Some deny this is true. They don’t believe a deity would make love to a human being. But almost every day he wandered into the meadows.

      Maybe the calm was erotic. Maybe the grasses bending over in the wind.

      He put at peace the warlike ways of the Romans. He instituted many religious observances.