@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"Selene, horned driver of cattle! Now I am both--I have horns and I ride a bull!β 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.β¦
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"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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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"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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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! π
"They say that the Lion of Nemea fell from the moon. At any rate Epimenides also has these words: βFor 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 β¦
