Good morning, moonβ¦
Good morning, moonβ¦
Moon Over Wagon Wheel Gap (May 2017)
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"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, VafΓΎrΓΊΓ°nismΓ‘l, stanza 23
π¨ MΓ‘ni, God of the Moon by ChrissaBug
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Luna rises under no debt to her brother's rays."
Virgil, Georgics 1.395
ποΈ #Luna, Roman statuette
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios."
Euripides, Phoenicians 175
ποΈ #Luna, Roman gold medallion ca. 3rd-6th century CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"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
ποΈ 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! π
"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
ποΈ Selene-Luna and Endymion, #Mosaic from the Roman Imperial period, found in the Roman city of Castulo, Spain
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