Selene
A prominent deity in the Greek pantheon whose role possibly conflicted with Hecate's.
↻ synthesized from 33 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Greek moon goddess, child of the Titans Hyperion and Theia.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Crius, Ersa, Pandia, Eunomia, Dike, Aethlius, Basileia, Leto, Pyrois, Aethon, Phlegon, Aeos, Hyperion, Theia, Nyx, Nzambi Mpungu, Máni, Tēcciztēcatl, Iah, Igaluk/Alignak, Metztli, Apollon Noumenios, Latona, Apollon, Pluto/Hades, Calliope, Chang E, Acte, Auge, Nymphe, Mesembria, Sponde, Elete, Hesperis, Dysis, Anatole, Musica, Gymnastica, Arctus, Endymion, men, Pallas, Themis, Eirene, Eros, Arinna, Ma, Phaethon, Jesus Christ, Allah, Nzambici, Sin, Tsukuyomi, Coyolxauhqui, Chandra, Aphrodite, Hera, Agathos Daimon, Jupiter, household gods, Sol, Juno, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Pandora, Apollo, Poseidon, Chronos, Adonis, Artemis, Attis, Astarte, Hecate, nymphs, Demeter, Eileithyia, Hestia, Gaia, Uranus, Cronus, Athena, Heracles, giant, Porphyrion, Serapis, Orpheus
- allied with
- Mēn Pharnakou, Lilaeus, Melinoe, Blackheart
- serves
- Zeus
- syncretized with
- Luna, Diana, Hekate, Persephone, Ereschigal, Charites, Moirai, Erinyes, Artemis (Diana), Changxi, Proserpina, Cynthia, Phoebe
- manifests as
- Pandia, Triple Goddess
- manifested by
- *Meh₁not
- served by
- Eli Bard
Mentioned by
- men
- Pallas
- Themis
- Eirene
- Eros
- Arinna
- Ma
- Phaethon
- Jesus Christ
- Allah
- Nzambici
- Sin
- Tsukuyomi
- Coyolxauhqui
- Chandra
- Aphrodite
and 48 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“her role was already filled by other more prominent deities in the Greek pantheon, above all by Artemis and Selene.”
#14298 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Helios is the son of Hyperion and Theia, or Euryphaessa, or Basileia, and the only brother of the goddesses Eos and Selene. If the order of mention of the three siblings is meant to be taken as their birth order, then out of the four authors that give him and his sisters a birth order”
#16703 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hyperion married his sister Basileia and had two children by her, Helios and Selene; their brothers...killed Hyperion along with his two children (which then went on to transform into the Sun and the Moon)”
#16741 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Eos is the sister of Helios, the god of the sun, and Selene, the goddess of the moon, "who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven".”
#18172 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“moon goddesses, including the Greek goddess Selene, the Roman goddess Luna, the Chinese goddess Chang'e, and the Aztec goddess Coyolxāuhqui, whose decapitation may represent a lunar eclipse. Several goddesses including Artemis, Hecate, Melinoë, Phoebe, Theia and Isis did not originally have lunar”
#18298 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001