Good morning, moon…

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Moon Over Wagon Wheel Gap (May 2017)

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

"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, Vafþrúðnismál, stanza 23

🎨 Máni, God of the Moon by ChrissaBug
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛

"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395

🏛️ #Luna, Roman statuette

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

"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175

🏛️ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE

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

"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

🏛️ 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! 🌛

"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

🏛️ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain

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