Selene

Makana Stare at the Moon

 Did you know every time you look at a full moon you’re really looking at someone’s baby? Well if you didn’t know, you are. Selene’s baby is the full moon of every month. She also had fifty full m  oons. Yes, fifty daughters. Selene also has the love of her life fast asleep forever, her parents are siblings, and she floats in the midnight sky.

She the Goddess of the Moon and family that rules all above. Selene was the Goddess of the Moon and of Solutions in Greek mythology. Her name means "Moon". The Romans identified her as

 “Luna.” She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. (2) Selene’s brother Helios is the Sun God, and her sister Eos is the rosy-fingered Dawn. Selene is known as a beautiful winged goddess who wears a golden cro wn that reflects light and who rides side saddle on a horse. Sometimes she was said to drive a team of oxen across the sky and her lunar crescent was like the horns of a bull. She was worshiped on nights with a full moon. It is after the first quarter of the Moon cycle that she is seen as a pregnant woman, growing rounder and rounder every night. Finally she becomes a true full moon. (4) The people believed she was nurturing and healing with strength and power as a mother would. Her strengths were making people sleep, giving lights to the night, and she also has control over time. Her weaknesses are changeable, like the moon itself, and she also hates change, so when change happens she brings everything to a stop. There is evidence of moon goddess worship dating back to 2400 BC.(1)

Selene’s life on her journey and what came across her path. After Selene’s brother completes his journey across the sky, Selene starts hers. But before she starts she bathes in the sea. Selene is known for her many love affairs, but the most famous of all her loves is the shepherd boy Endymion and this is how it goes. One day while Selene was driving her horses through the clouds and across the evening sky, her eyes fell upon a shepherd Endymion. His sheep fled around him while he was fast asleep. Selene’s heart dropped, after that day he never left her mind. (1) Endymion was a beautiful youth who feed his sheep on Mount Latmos. Selene the cold heart of the virgin goddess was warmed by his great beauty. She came down from the sky and she kissed him and watched over him as he slept. (2) That night Selene went to Zeus and asked if Endymion could be granted eternal youth and eternal life. Zeus granted the wish and Endymion slept on for eternity. His dreams were always about Selene; he dreamt about them being together and growing old, but it was more than just a dream because they two in the future were granted with fifty daughters. Their daughters were all beautiful but pale and quite sleepy. (1)   Theia is Selene’s mother she is known as the Goddess of Sight and the Lights of the Sky. She also had control over metals and gems, which seems to shine their own light. Theia has three children with Hyperion her brother. Her children are Helios (the Sun), Eos (The Dawn), and Selene (The Moon). Hyperion is Selene’s father he is also known as the Titan god of light. He was one of the sons of Ouranos(Heaven) and Gaia(Earth). (3) Theia and Hyperion are siblings by the exact same parents.

Selene was the Moon Goddess and had many daughters. Her love is sleeping and she floats across the sky to watch over everything. So next time you look outside and you see a full moon you will know its Selene and she’s watching over you as well as her love.

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