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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Not ye had the wakeful dawn put all the stars to flight from heaven, and Luna [#Selene] was beholding the approach of day with fading horn."
Statius, Thebaid 12.1

🏛️ Bronze statue of the moon goddess #Luna from ancient marine cargo of a merchant ship that sank during the Late Roman period 400 CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Three nights remained before #Luna's (the Moon's) bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179

🏛️ Statue of Diana #Selene found near the Porta San Sebastiano, today in the Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo in Rome

📸 Gypsi
flickr.com/photos/gypsi54/2775

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rosy-fingered #Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96

🏛️ #Luna bronze statuette, 1st century CE, Staatliche Museen Antikensammlung, #Berlin

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"A team of mules unbridled and a mule-cart with silver wheels are there on the beach, but #Selene knows not how to put mules to her yokestrap--she drives a team of bulls!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7.222

🏛️ #Luna in her biga, relief on the short west side of the Arch of Constantine, #Rome, 312—315 CE

📸 Sergey Sosnovskiy

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We are the children of Hyperion
That light of the heavens
Born of Gaea, our divine mother the sacred earth
And Ouranos, our divine father the starry sky

We are the children of Theia
That Titan that sees all and allows us to see
Born of Gaea, our divine mother and giver of gifts
And Ouranos, our divine father the heavens above

Helios
Resplendant lord of the Winter Solstice

Selene
Silver gowned lady of the moon

Eos
Bedecked in shades of gold, violet, and indigo at the dawn

The divine Hyperionides
Who from the East ride forth
Into the heavens above
To bring light and color to the world once dark
The gifts of their parents
They who measure the days
And the months of the year

Art: Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594-1665

#polytheism #hellenismos #paganism #pagan #prayer #hyperion #selene #EOS #helios

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"When Mene [#Selene], full with grey fire, gilds with her face the gleaming heaven: not when, sharpening her pointed horns, she first shines, rising in the shadowless dusk of the month, but when, orbing the round radiance of her eye, she draws to herself the reflected rays of the sun."
Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias 514

🏛️ #Luna bust on a Roman oil lamp, dated 100 CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"For even the stars go pale before their streams, no longer do we see the Moon [#Selene], the dark-eyed lady that treads upon the heel of the sun, who is frozen among the clouds."
Anonymous, Two Poems Fragments, Select Papyri III, No. 140

🏛️ #Luna, bronze statue, Late Roman period 400 CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Rising from the distant east, the Lady Selene, Titanian goddess, saw the girl [#Medea] wandering distraught, and in wicked glee said to herself: So I am not the only one to go astray for love, I that burn for beautiful Endymion and seek him in the Latmian cave."
Seneca, Phaedra 742

🏛️ #Selene and #Endymion, Roman marble sarcophagus, ca 3rd century CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"As much fairer does your beauty shine as gleams more brightly the full-orbed moon when with meeting horns she has joined her fires, when at the full with speeding chariot blushing Phoebe [Selene the Moon] shows her face and the lesser stars fade out of sight."
Seneca, Phaedra 742

🏛️ #Selene in her chariot, about 1st CE, today at the British Museum

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Hear, goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horned, and wandering through the gloom of night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide night's torch extending, through the heavens you ride."
Orphic Hymn 9 to #Selene

🏛️ Mithraic marble relief with #Luna in the top left corner, 2nd-3rd century CE

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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"#Luna (the Moon) [Selene] herself has ordained various days in various grades as lucky for work. Shun the fifth; then pale Orcus [Horkos, Oath] and the Eumenides [Erinyes, Vengeances] were born."
Virgil, Georgics 1.276

🏛️ Mould-made #pottery lamp decorated with a bust of #Selene. 2nd-3rd century, Corinth

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