Moon
The Moon is the husband of Saulė, the Sun. Saulė is described as driving her shining car on the way to her husband, the Moon.
↻ synthesized from 11 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Cult persisted among northern Albanians.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Amesha Spentas, Fravashis, Hermaphroditus, Stilbon, Ahura Mazda, sun deity, Sol Invictus, Vulcan, Zeus, Jupiter, Poseidon, Neptune, Artemis (Diana), Apollo, Mercury, Hermes
- consort of
- Saulė
- sibling of
- Sun
- allied with
- Vohu Manah, Bʼatzbʼal, Xkitza
- child of
- Mother
Mentioned by
- Ahura Mazda
- sun deity
- Sol Invictus
- Vulcan
- Zeus
- Jupiter
- Poseidon
- Neptune
- Artemis (Diana)
- Apollo
- Mercury
- Hermes
- Mah
- Hecate
- Savirqong
- Vohu Manah
and 3 more
Sources
Source passages
“Saulė is also described as driving her shining car on the way to her husband, the Moon.”
#16093 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“siblings becoming the sun and moon, the sun torch flaming while the moon torch is only embers.”
#16136 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Such motifs are particularly related to the ancient cults of the Sun and Moon, survived until recently among northern Albanians.”
#16577 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's.”
#18341 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Moon is however also "bestower, radiant, glorious, possessed of water, possessed of warmth, possessed of knowledge, wealth, riches, discernment, weal, verdure, good, and the healing one". "During the spring, the Moon causes plants to grow up out of the earth".”
#19362 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001