2025-12-08 08:20:29
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Now, what's this meeting supposed to be about, exactly?"
Me
#Monday
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
Alexander Graham Bell
"Now, what's this meeting supposed to be about, exactly?"
Me
#Monday
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Unwearied Helios and Selene at her full and all the signs with which heaven is crowned. Greetings, all you immortal gods everlasting and immortal goddesses!"
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 937
🏛️ Red figure pyxis, after 5th century BCE artwork
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"The Latmian hunter [Endymion], while his comrades are yet scattered in troops about the glens, rests in the summer shade, fit lover for a goddess, and soon Luna [Selene] comes with veiled horns."
Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8. 28
🏛️ #Fresco
From a selection of 2099 tracks, this is my week's #MondayRandom10:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Lily (My One and Only)”
2. Goldie, "Inner City Life”
3. Qoiet, “cursedOBJECT”
4. Pop Will Eat Itself, “RSVP”
5. Rocky Leon, “Billionaire”
6. Ronnie James Dio, “Love is All”
7. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”
8 Robert Palmer, “Simply Irresistible”
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"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
🏛️
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Through the blue-black vault of the stars and of Selana (Selene the Moon) who gives swift childbirth."
Timotheus, Frag 803
🏛️ Selene, 1st century CE, Musei Capitolini: Palazzo Nuovo, Rome
#antiquidons
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Three nights remained before Luna's bright horns would meet and form her orb; then she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 179
🏛️ Selene figurine, 2nd - 3rd century CE, private collection