It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 
"Luna (the Moon) rules the months."
#Ovid, Fasti 3.883
Helios-Sol and Selene-Luna, Roman #mosaic, ca. 4th century CE, Necropolis of mausoleo “M”, Basílica de San Pedro del Vaticano
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Ο stars, and #Selene, who light beautifully Love's friends on their way, and Nyx, and you, my little musical instrument, companion of my revels."
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.191
Silver pendant from Bactrian culture in Afghanistan, circa 1st-2nd century CE.
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Sweet voiced Muses, daughters of Zeus, well skilled in song, tell of the Long-winged Mene [Selene]. From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth; and great is the beauty that arises from her shining light. The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown."
Homeric Hymn 32 to Selene
#Selene vase painting
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Selene (the Moon), circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios!"
Euripides, Phoenicians 175
Statue of #Selene, white marble, 250-300 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Luna (the Moon) herself has ordained various days in various grades as lucky for work. Shun the fifth: then pale Orcus [Oath] and the Eumenides [Erinyes, Furies] were born."
Virgil, Georgics 1.276
#Luna, Fragment of a Roman #mosaic, Villa of Orbe-Boscéaz (in situ), near Orbe, 3rd century CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"As much as all the stars are less than your bright fires when your silvery gleam goes forth with pure rays, so much more fair is she than all the fair."
#Ovid, Heroides 18.59
Roman oil lamp decorated with the goddess #Luna
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene (the Moon), circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios!"
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
#Luna-Selene, relief on the pediment at the Roman Baths
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Not ye had the wakeful dawn put all the stars to flight from heaven, and Luna [#Selene] was beholding the approach of day with fading horn."
Statius, Thebaid 12.1
Bronze statue of the moon goddess #Luna from ancient marine cargo of a merchant ship that sank during the Late Roman period 400 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"So does starlight splendour wane with the coming of the sun, and the huddled flock of the Pleiades vanish away when Phoebe [#Selene the Moon], shining with borrowed light [from the sun], with encircling horns encloses her full-orbed disk."
Seneca, Medea 95
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Three nights remained before #Luna's (the Moon's) bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179
Statue of Diana #Selene found near the Porta San Sebastiano, today in the Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo in Rome
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"#Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted #Helios (the Sun)."
#Euripides, Phoenicians 175
Baal-Saturnus, Helios-Sol & Selene-Luna Relief on marble bowl
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"Rosy-fingered #Selene (the Moon) after sunset, surpasssing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot."
#Sappho, Fragment 96
#Luna bronze statuette, 1st century CE, Staatliche Museen Antikensammlung, #Berlin
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"A team of mules unbridled and a mule-cart with silver wheels are there on the beach, but #Selene knows not how to put mules to her yokestrap--she drives a team of bulls!"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 7.222
#Luna in her biga, relief on the short west side of the Arch of Constantine, #Rome, 312—315 CE
Sergey Sosnovskiy
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We are the children of Hyperion
That light of the heavens
Born of Gaea, our divine mother the sacred earth
And Ouranos, our divine father the starry sky
We are the children of Theia
That Titan that sees all and allows us to see
Born of Gaea, our divine mother and giver of gifts
And Ouranos, our divine father the heavens above
Helios
Resplendant lord of the Winter Solstice
Selene
Silver gowned lady of the moon
Eos
Bedecked in shades of gold, violet, and indigo at the dawn
The divine Hyperionides
Who from the East ride forth
Into the heavens above
To bring light and color to the world once dark
The gifts of their parents
They who measure the days
And the months of the year
Art: Nicolas Poussin, French, 1594-1665
#polytheism #hellenismos #paganism #pagan #prayer #hyperion #selene #EOS #helios
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"And soon #Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28
#Selene fresco, Necropolis of Cappella, Monte di Procida
Ferdinando Gangemi
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"When Mene [#Selene], full with grey fire, gilds with her face the gleaming heaven: not when, sharpening her pointed horns, she first shines, rising in the shadowless dusk of the month, but when, orbing the round radiance of her eye, she draws to herself the reflected rays of the sun."
Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias 514
#Luna bust on a Roman oil lamp, dated 100 CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"May you [Luna-Selene the Moon] wear a shining face and, the clouds all scattered, fare on with undimmed horns; when you drive your car through the nightly skies."
Seneca, Phaedra 417
#Selene or #Luna, detail from the Parabiago plate, ca 2nd–5th centuries CE
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!
"For even the stars go pale before their streams, no longer do we see the Moon [#Selene], the dark-eyed lady that treads upon the heel of the sun, who is frozen among the clouds."
Anonymous, Two Poems Fragments, Select Papyri III, No. 140
#Luna, bronze statue, Late Roman period 400 CE
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