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Full Moon Photos by Natalie Tobert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Goddess Book of Days’ has the 7th as the Day of Selene and other Moon Goddesses. Of course the Full Moon is the proper time to celebrate her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selene is one of the most beguiling of Goddesses as she is the epitome of the Moon (Romans knew her as Luna). She, who gives that silvery, ethereal light to dark days. And appears and disappears to a routine few of us really understand. Selen is therefore beautiful, beguiling, unknowable. The Goddess of Intuition. The bringer of tides and the monthly periods. A Goddess of power as well as fertility, pregnancy and so love, and mothers, and babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selene and the Parthenon<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To my mind, far more powerful than Aphrodite, Selene seems much more independent. On the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum she is shown with her brother Helios, the Sun God; with Hercules – the epitome of male strength. Demeter and Persephone, representing the earth and underworld (or life and death). Athene and her father, Zeus; Iris, the messenger Goddess. Hestia, the Goddess of the home, and Dione with her daughter ,Aphrodite, representing love. At one end, Helios brings up the sun with his Chariot and Horse. While at the other, Selene’s horse sinks exhausted in Oceanus after a glorious night of moon shine. It’s a wonderful arrangement, which suggests the scheme was to show a balanced cosmos between female and male forces, framed by the Sun and the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cartoon of Elgin Marble, showing Selene’s Horse at the right hand end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I did a longer piece on this pediment of the Parthenon Marbles here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selene – Moon Goddess by Mike Petrucci -unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have used several of Natalie Tobert’s photos in my post which I pluck from Natalie’s face facebook feed which is a veritable visual feast. She worked, as an archaeologist, at the Museum of London at the same time as me. She is an excellent potter, photographer and artist. Natalie was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of Society of Designer Craftsmen. You can see more of her pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First published in 2022, and revised February 2024, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Goddess Book of Days’ has the 7th as the Day of Selene and other Moon Goddesses. Of course the Full Moon is the proper time to celebrate her. Selene is one of the most beguiling of Goddesses as she is the epitome of the Moon (Romans knew her as Luna). She, who gives that … <\/p>\n

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