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1 Selene: Titan Goddess of the Moon
RJ Price-Richardson

2 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.

3 Endymion Sleep my Dude! p.s. Don’t age. You got it dude.
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. Endymion You got it dude. 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.

4 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.

5 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.

6 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. Smell the magic

7 According to the ancient Greeks, Selene was the goddess of the moon
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.

8 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.

9 Map 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.

10 Works Cited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%9Fparmak_Mountains


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