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Selene: Titan Goddess of the
Moon
RJ Price-Richardson
Origin Story
 Selene was a Titan goddess in Greek mythology, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and
Theia. She had two siblings, Helios and Eos. She was the goddess of the moon, which she
drove across every night in the skies. Selene was linked to Artemis as well as Hecate; all
three were considered lunar goddesses. She was depicted as a woman riding on a horse
or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged horses. Her lunar sphere or crescent was
either a crown set upon her head or a shining cloak. She was sometimes said to drive a
team of oxen and her lunar crescent looked like a pair of bull's horns.
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You got
it dude.
Endymion
In some stories, Zeus woke the youth and asked him
what type of life he would want to lead. The young
man, who had also fallen in love with the moon
goddess, asked that he might sleep forever under
her light.
One night as Selene moved
across the sky, she looked down
on the Earth below and saw a
beautiful young man sleeping. The
man was named Endymion.
According to most legends, he
was a shepherd tending his sheep
in the countryside. Captivated by
the hot sleeping boy, Selene
asked Zeus, the leader of the
Greek gods, to give the boy
eternal life and to make him sleep
forever. Zeus, who loved Selene
and was her lover in some stories,
agreed, and the young man
remained young and asleep for all
time.
Some sources say…..
 Each night, Endymion dreamed of a beautiful woman who came and made love to him.
Selene gave birth to 50 daughters as a result of her visits to Endymion. Their daughters
represented the 50 lunar months of the Olympiad, or period of four years marking the
beginning of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece.
Summary
Selene's greatest love was the shepherd Endymion. The
beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by
Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near
the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos (Latmus). His heavenly bride
consorted with him there in the night.
Other Goddesses Associated with the
Moon
 A number of other goddesses were also associated with the moon, however, only Selene
was represented by old Greek poets as the moon incarnate. Other Greek moon
goddesses included Pasiphae, the Leukippides, Eileithyia, Hecate, Artemis, Bendis, and
Hera.
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the
magic
According to the ancient
Greeks, Selene was the goddess
of the moon. She was the
granddaughter of Gaia, or
Mother Earth, and Uranus, or
Father Sky. Selene was one of
the Titans, the immortal children
of Gaia and Uranus, the
daughter of their son Hyperion.
Selene and her brother, Helios,
god of the sun, were responsible
for controlling the movements of
the sun and moon across the
sky.
 Some artists and poets added golden
wings or small horns to their descriptions
of the moon goddess. The Romans
incorporated the goddess Selene into
their pantheon, or group of gods. They
called her Luna, and our word 'lunar' for
things related to the moon.
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Mount Othrys was the home of most of the Titans but some
sources say that Selene lived on the moon or was in fact the
moon itself.
Works Cited
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%9Fparmak_Mountains
 http://geology.phillipmartin.info/home_03.htm
 http://www.greekmythology.com/Titans/Selene/selene.html
 http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Selene.html
 http://www.loggia.com/myth/selene.html
 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Selene-Greek-and-Roman-mythology