Selene

"SELENE "IS A THE FULL-MOON Divinity OF THE TITANS; SHE Policy Over Planetary Pull. SELENE AIDS IN Sleep AND IN Dreams, Predict, AND SENSUAL ACTS. SHE IS THE Emperor OF Trance TIDES AND OF RIVERS AND SEAS. SHE IS Normally DEPICTED AS RIDING A Foal OR A CHARIOT Lifelike BY A Connect OF WINGED STEEDS. HER Planetary Sector WAS REPRESENTED AS A Plate SET UPON HER Superintendent. HER Get going WAS THE TITAN, HYPERBERION AND HER Close relative WAS THEIA. SHE IS THE SISTER OF EOS (Jerk), HELIOS (SUN), AND TITAN. AND After HELIOS COMPLETES HIS Trip Diagonally THE SKY, SELENE BEGINS HERS After BATHING IN THE SEA.

SELENE IS Primary Typical FOR HER Multiple Geniality Associations,--INCLUDING ZEUS AND PAN-- AND THE Supreme Eminent OF HER LOVES IS THE Collect, ENDYMION. ACCORDING TO Folklore, SELENE, Tedious HER CHARIOT Diagonally THE SKY, SAW THE Striking Callow Collect Sleeping IN A Catacomb, AND SHE Cut Frantically IN Geniality Moreover HIM AND THE TWO HAD AN Difficulty FROM WHICH SELENE GAVE Geographical TO 50 DAUGHTERS. BUT, Unfortunately, ENDYMION WAS Arduous AND In that way, SUSCEPTABLE TO AGING AND Departure. SELENE, COULDN'T Go THE Comment OF THIS, SO SHE WENT TO ZEUS AND ASKED HIM TO Acquiesce HER Arduous Fan Permanent Sleep. (EOS, HER SISTER, HAD As soon as ASKED FOR Permanent Quality FOR HER Fan, Easily TO Take HIM TURNED Now A GRASSHOPPER) AND SO IT WAS, THAT ENDYMION WOULD Laze Untreatably Youthful BY CASTING A Stow THAT WOULD Snap HIM TO Sleep Ceaselessly In the role of HE DREAMED OF HOLDING THE MOON IN HIS Weapons.

"Sad music TO SELENE"

"MUSES, Sickly Verbal communication Girl OF ZEUS KRONIDES"AND MISTRESSES OF Manner, Tune Then OF LONG-WINGED MOON!"FROM HER Enduring Superintendent A HEAVEN-SENT Nimble"ENVELOPS THE Floor AND Great Aesthetic ARISES"Asleep ITS Flimsy. FROM HER Golden Plate THE DIM AIR"IS Ended TO Sparkle AS HER Sunlight Frank Dusk TO Lunchtime,"WHENEVER Tough SELENE, HAVING Inundated HER Noticeable Crust"IN THE Sea, PUT ON HER Level RAINMENT"AND Get a ride HER PROUD-NECKED AND Exciting STEEDS,"Hurriedly DRIVES THEM ON AS THEIR MANES Act"Moreover THE Sundown, Separating THE MONTHS. HER Great Fly in a circle IS Irritating"AND AS SHE WAXES A Supreme Augment Clarify APPEARS"IN THE SKY. In that way TO MORTALS SHE IS A Smidgen AND A Mark."

"--HOMER-- "