Gods & Goddesses
Goddess Moon
Artemis: Moon Goddess of both Greeks and the legendary Amazons. Worshipers payed homage to her on nights of the ful moon by reveling in the forest under the moon's light. She was associated with the Waxing Moon.
Diana: Roman assimilation of the Greek Moon Goddess Artemis. Diana was often portrayed riding the moon, with a bow in her hands. She was frequently worshiped out in the open, so she could look down at her faithful.
Hecate: Greek Moon Goddess who came out at night carrying a torch and accompanied by dogs. She was said to frequent crossroads, where statues to her were erected. A triple Goddess, she was sometimes pictured as having the heads of a dog, a horse, and a serpent. Worshippers paid tribute on nights of the full moon by leaving offerings at her statues. As queen of the night, Hecate ruled spirits, ghosts, and infernal creatures such as ghouls. She was the patroness of Witchcraft.
Ishtar (also Asdar, Astar, Istar, Istaru): Babylonian Goddess who ruled the Moon, derived in part from the Sumerian goddess Inanna. In some accounts Ishtar was the daughter of the Moon God Sin and sister of Shamash the Sun God. According to legend, on a trip to the underworld to find Tammuz, her dead lover, she had shed her clothes, which caused the moon to darken. On her return trip, as she regained her clothes, the moon brightened again.
Juno: Roman Sky and Moon Goddess. The apprearance of the new moon would bring out her women worshipers.
Luna: Roman Goddess of the Moon. Associated with Selene, Diana, and Hecate.
Pandia: Greek Goddess associated with Selene, the Greek Goddess of the Full Moon.
Selene (also Mene, Selena): Greek Goddess of the Full Moon. Wearing wings and a crescent crown, Selene rode in a chariot pulled by two white horses.
Titania: Epithet for Diana, Roman Moon Goddess
KHEPERA: Khepera was the ancient Egyptian god of creation who propelled the sun across the sky.
Khepera: God of morning sun.
APOLLO: Born as a son to Zeus and Leto, Apollo was the twin brother of Artemis, and his mother spent some time on the run from Hera, Zeus' jealous wife. She finally found shelter on the island of Delos, in the Aegan Sea, and there delivered her child. A golden burst of light showered the island on the birth of Apollo, and seven swans circled it. But Leto, still running from Hera, had to entrust her newborn children to Themis, who brought them up on ambrosia and nectar, with the result that Apollo attained manhood in only a few hours, and escaped from Themis, declaring his destiny was to become a bow man, a player of the lyre, and a supplier of truthful oracles to mankind.
MERCURY: Mercury was the Roman name for the Greek god Hermes.
Hermes was the Greek god of oratory. He was a son of Zeus and Maia. In ancient Greece, statues of Hermes were set up by inhabitants at the doors of their houses, and sometimes also in the peristyle. They also set statues to mark land boundaries, at road junctions, street corners and other prominent places.
Artemis ..... Apollo ..... Mercury
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