Selene (redirected from Luna (goddess))

Selene (səlē`nē), in Greek mythology and mythology, moon goddess; daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and sister of the sun god Helios. There was no known moon cult among the Greeks, but Selene was a significant figure in Greek poetry and sorcery and was often identified with Hecate and Artemis.

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Selene

 Latin Luna

In Greek and Roman religion, the goddess that personified the Moon. Her parents were the Titans Hyperion and Theia; her siblings were Helios and Eos, the goddess of dawn. Selene fell in love with Endymion, a handsome young shepherd; Zeus cast Endymion into eternal sleep, but Selene visited him in the cave where he slept, and he fathered her 50 daughters (one for each lunar month between Olympiads) and, according to some accounts, Narcissus. In art Selene is often represented as a woman with the crescent moon on her head. As Luna she had temples in Rome on the Aventine and Palatine hills.

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Selene

the moon as lover of sleeping shepherd Endymion. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 726–727]

See : Moon

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Selene

in Greek mythology, the goddess of the moon; identified with Artemis and sometimes with the goddess Hecate, who was considered the patroness of magic and sorcery. In Sappho’s poetry, Selene was depicted as a beautiful woman bearing a torch in her hand and trailing stars behind her.