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Luna(meaning‘moon’) was the goddess of the moon and often presented as the female complement to Sol(god of the sun) in Roman mythology. She was also sometimes represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess (diva triformis), along with Proserpina(goddess of fertility)andHecate(the greekgoddess of magic). Luna was not always a distinct goddess, but sometimes rather an epithet that specialised a goddess, since both Diana(goddess of the hunt)andJuno(queen of the gods) were also identified as moon goddesses. Her Greek counterpart was the moon goddess Selene and in Roman art and literature, myths of Selene were adapted under the name of Luna.
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Yemọja(Yoruba:Yemanjá) was considered the mother of all Orishas and the goddess of the living ocean in Nigerian mythology and the Yoruba religion of West Africa. She was motherly, strongly protective and cared deeply for all her children, comforting them and cleansing them of sorrow. She was said to be able to cure infertility in women, with cowrie shells representing her wealth. She didn’t easily lose her temper, but when angered she could be quite destructive and violent, unleashing the flood waters from turbulent rivers. Yemọja was also depicted as a mermaid and heavily associated with the moon (in some Diaspora communities), water, and feminine mysteries. She governed everything pertaining to women; parenting, child safety, love, and healing. According to myth, when her waters broke, it caused a great flood creating rivers and streams and that the first mortal humans were created from her womb. To this day she is still considered the patron spirit of rivers, particularly the Ogun RiverinNigeria; and oceans in CubanandBrazilian orisa religions.
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Branwen(Bronwen meaning ‘Blessed Raven’) was the goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Llyr(god of the sea) andPenarddun in Celtic mythology. Because of her connection to white ravens if they were found in the willd they were considered sacred to the goddess. They were also associated with prophecies and dreams in the Celtic religion. The druids believed ravens were able to travel to the Otherworld and return with messages of ancient knowledge and wisdom from the deities. Branwen was also a triple goddess of AvalonalongsideCeriddwen(goddess of the moon)andArainrhod(goddess of reincarnation) and was considered to be the maiden aspect of the triple goddess due to her beauty as a young woman.
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Lilith (לִילִית, meaning ‘nocturnal’) was a figure in Jewish mythology that was believed to derive from a class of female demons known as the Lilitu found in the religions of Mesopotamia. The Lilitu were malicious, winged spirits which had the tendency to prey on pregnant women and infants. Amulets and incantations were used as protection against such evil spirits. The earliest recordings of Lilith’s story are from the Medieval period. The story states that GodcreatedAdam and Lilith at the same time on the seventh day. Trouble soon started when Lilith wanted to be the dominant partner sexually, which Adam refused. In anger she uttered a forbidden name of God and left the Garden, becoming a type of demon. Adam begged God to bring her back, but when his angels tracked her down, she refused. Lilith became known as a demon of lust and death. She was known to cause miscarriages and sudden infant death, but it was said that talismans with the names of the three angels responsible for tracking Lilith could protect people from her harm. She was also known as the ‘Mother of Demons’ and the ‘Goddess of the Night.’
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Caer Ibormeith was the goddess of dreams and prophecy in Celtic mythology. She was also a daughter of Prince Ethal Anbuail of Sid Uamuin in Connacht. In Óengus’s(god of love) dream, which lasted over a year, Caer Ibormeith stood beside his bed though when he reached out for her, she would disappear. Every alternate Samhain she would turn to human form for one day, which began at sunset, and after that, she would revert back into being a swan, for another year until the following Samhain. Óengus went in search for this girl in his dreams at the lake of the Dragon’s Mouth and found 150 girls chained in pairs, Caer Ibormeith was among them. He was told he could marry her if he could identify her in her swan form. Óengus chose correctly and with that he turned himself into a swan and they flew away together. The pair sang beautiful music as they went, that put all listeners throughout Ireland to sleep for three days and nights.
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Coyolxāuhqui (pron. Koy-ol-shauw-kee) was the goddess of the moon in Aztec mythology. On the summit of Coatepec(Serpent Mountain), sat a shrine for Coatlicue(mother of the gods). One day, as she swept her shrine, a ball of hummingbird feathers fell from the sky. She snatched them up and became pregnant with the Aztec deity Huitzilopochtli(god of war). Hearing of the pregnancy Coyolxāuhqui led her brothers known as the Centzon Huitznahuas(Four Hundred Huiztnaua) in attack against their mother. However the attack was thwarted when Coatlicue miraculously gave birth to a fully grown and readily armed Huitzilopochtli. He killed his older sister by beheading her and throwing her body down the side of Coatepec and then scattered his brothers in all directions pursuing those who escaped relentlessly for years. Some authors have written that Huitzilopochtli tossed Coyolxauhqui’s head into the sky where it became the moon, so that his mother would be comforted in seeing her daughter in the sky every night, and that her scattered brothers later became Southern Star deities.
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Selene(Σελήνη meaning‘Moon’)was the Titan Goddess of the moon in Greek mythology who was renowned for driving her moon chariot across the heavens. One of her great loves was with a shepard prince called Endymion who was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus(king of the gods) who then placed him in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of LydianMount Latmos. Each night Selene would visit him when the moon came down from the sky where she would consort with him because she couldn’t bare the thought of him dying.
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