It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"Mundilferi is he who began the moon,
And fathered the flaming sun;
The round of heaven each day they run,
To tell the time for men."
Poetic Edda, Vafรพrรบรฐnismรกl, stanza 23
๐จ Mรกni, God of the Moon by ChrissaBug
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395
๐๏ธ #Luna, Roman statuette
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175
๐๏ธ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos (Dawn) and rich-tressed Selene (the Moon)."
Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios
๐๏ธ Selene and Eos or Nyx, Attic red-figure pyxis, 430-410 BCE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"There were the clustering blooms which have the name Narcissus the fair youth, whom horned Selene's bridegroom Endymion begat on leafy Latmos."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48.582
๐๏ธ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179
๐๏ธ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937
๐๏ธ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28
๐๏ธ #Fresco painting of Selene and #Endymion in House of Ara Massima in #Pompeii
๐ธ Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble
https://flickr.com/photos/pauljill/4144325814
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803
๐๏ธ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! ๐
"It was naked that Endymion enraptured Phoebus's sister [Selene] and naked, they say, lay with the goddess."
Propertius, Elegies 2. 15
๐๏ธ Selene and Endymion #relief, Roman marble sarcophagus, circa 3rd century CE
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