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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-04 07:27:57
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"The allwhite stone of Selene [the moonstone], which fades as the horned goddess wanes, and waxes when Mene (the Moon) newkindled distils her horn's liquid light and milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.88
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Sardonyx cameo depicting Selene riding her chariot pulled by two bulls. She holds the reins in her right hand and a whip in her left.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-01 06:56:21
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"If at her [Luna's] fourth rising--for that is our surest guide--she pass through the sky clear and with undimmed horns, then all that day, and the days born of it to the month's end, shall be free from rain and wind; and the sailors, safe in port."
Virgil, Georgics 1.426
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Cast bronze bust of the Roman moon-goddess Luna. She is wearing a chiton or peplos pinned over both shoulders and arms. A large lunar crescent adorns her head, reminiscient of horns.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-28 07:11:27
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"Mene (the Moon) helped Bromios [Dionysos], attacking Pentheus with her divine scourge; the frenzied reckless fury of distracting Selene joining in displayed many a phantom shape to maddened Pentheus [who became lunatic or moon-struck]"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 46.97
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Mould-made pottery oil lamp decorated on the discus with a bust of Selene, with bull-protomes on each side and a lunar crescent behind her shoulders.
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-14 17:21:11

Damn the #weekend is over :(
It was like a blink of eyes...
Tomorrow #monday

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-25 20:51:41
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"Shining Eos carried off Orion for a bridegroom, and Selene Endymion."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.516
πŸ›οΈ #Selene and Endymion, detail of an ivory Querinian diptych from Roman Civilization, circa 5th century CE, found in

The so-called "Querini diptych" (after the name of one of its owners, Angelo Maria Querini) is an ivory diptych dated to the 5th century CE, belonging to ancient Roman art. The valves show reliefs of two couples of lovers from the pagan tradition, possibly Selene-Diana and Endymion and Phaedra and Hippolytus (not shown in this photo). The relief is exhibited in the archaeological Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia, Italy.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-18 08:05:20
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"The changing circuits of Selene as she comes back and back again--how she changes her returning shape in three circles, new-shining, half-moon, and gleaming with full face; how her splendour now touching, now shrinking back, at the male furnace of father Helios"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4.279
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Mosaic in the House of the Planetarium in Italica, Spain, with a bust of Selene, the Moon, who gave her name to Monday. She is depicted with a top bow hairstyle and a dark robe with a lunar crescent behind her shoulders.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-22 17:31:25
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"Against Mene the moon I [Helios the Sun] move my rolling ball, the sparkling nourisher of sheaf-producing growth, and pass on my endless circuit about the turning-point of the Zodiac, creating the measures of time."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.244
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This Roman bronze statuette depicts a female figure suspended in the air with her toes pointed as if about to land. Her right hand grasps an object that is difficult to identify. It might be an alabastron, a small vessel for precious liquids, or it may be the end of a short, down-turned torch. The windblown mantle and the alighting posture characterise the figure as a personification of nature, especially the celestial forces. Her attribute, either a torch, or perhaps a vessel of dew or dreams,…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 07:15:16
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"From afar the chambers breathing magic spells burst open and the grim doors flew wide, and she [Medea] gazed at all that she had torn from the ocean-bed or from the Shades below, or drawn down from the blood-red visage of #Luna."

This vase depicts the shepherd Endymion luring Selene the Moon down from the sky with a shining fleece. The goddess drives in a four-horse chariot and is crowned with the crescent moon and shining aureole. Aphrodite and Peitho, the goddesses of love and seduction, stand to her left (not seen here).
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-18 09:13:40
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Dance and make your #Monday a joy like this ancient Greek dancer. πŸ’ƒ 🎢
#BumDayMonday
#GreekRomanArt

Solid cast bronze figure of a lissome female dancer with elongated torso and legs, nude but for a band-like perizoma covering her buttocks, her pudendum bare, decorated on the reverse with interlocking X's, wearing latchet shoes enclosing her toes and tied at the ankles, standing on her toes, the heels raised (supports below), the right leg slightly advanced, her right arm raised high overhead and bent at the elbow, the left lowered, playing krotala (castanets), one preserved, the dichotomy of …
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-18 11:46:14

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Yttling Jazz, Joshua Idehen & Saturday, Monday:
🎡 Illegal Hit Edit
#YttlingJazz #JoshuaIdehen #Saturday #Monday
#newRelease πŸ†• single

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-15 10:02:18
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"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

Two photos of a marble head of Luna, the goddess of the moon, with abundant wavy center-parted hair pulled up loosely into a top-knot fronted by her iconic lunar crescent attribute. They are gathered into a chignon in back. Her oval face has a smooth spade-shaped forehead merging with the bridge of her slender nose, her lidded eyes unarticulated, her small mouth with bow-shaped lips.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-14 21:29:26
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"They say that the Lion of Nemea fell from the moon. At any rate Epimenides also has these words: β€˜For I am sprung from fair-tressed #Selene the Moon, who in a fearful shudder shook off the savage lion in Nemea, and brought him forth …

Mosaic of a male lion. He has his maw open and his eyes are wide. The artist gave him a blonde mane.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-08-11 15:47:08
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"Selene, they say, fell in love with this Endymion and bore him fifty daughters. [...] The folk of Herakleia say that he retired to Mount Latmos and give him honour, there being a shrine of Endymion on Latmos."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.1.4
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Relief depicting the moon goddess Selene with her lover Endymion. Eros is at the top right to symbolise love and lust. One of Endymion's hunting dogs is leaping on the left.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-14 12:44:13

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Yttling Jazz, Joshua Idehen & Saturday, Monday:
🎡 Illegal Hit Edit
#YttlingJazz #JoshuaIdehen #Saturday #Monday

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-08 07:32:55
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"May you [Luna, 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
πŸ›οΈ #Luna, detail from the Parabiago plate,…

Silver plate detail of a relief depicting the moon goddess Luna or Selene in her biga, a chariot drawn by two animals, in her case two oxen. She can be identified by the iconic lunar crescent on her forehead and the billowing cloak. In front of her flies Eosphoros or Lucifer, the dawn star, with his flaming torch.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-07-07 21:20:55
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It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! πŸŒ›
"Selene, horned driver of cattle! Now I am both--I have horns and I ride a bull!’ So he called out boasting to the round Moon. #Selene looked with a jealous eye through the air, to see how Ampleos rode on the murderous marauding bull.…

Sculpture group of Selene, the Moon Goddess, in Her chariot drawn by bulls across the sky. She has a cloak billowing behind her and used to hold the reins and probably a riding crop.