Selene (Σελήνη in Ancient Greek) was the Greek Titaness of the Moon, or simply the moon as she was the moon personified into a divine being (the same goes for Helios and the sun). Her Roman counterpart is Luna.
History[]
She might have faded due to the downsizing of the Romans, though in the books they say her role went to the goddess Artemis. They never say if Selene is actually gone. She is the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and the sister of Helios and Eos. She pulled the moon across the sky riding side saddle on a horse or in a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was represented as either a crown set upon her head or as the fold of a raised shining cloak. Sometimes she was said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to the horns of a bull. Selene's great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos.
love life[]
Selene was different from Artemis, who replaced her, as Selene did have a few lovers, both mortal and divine alike while Artemis shunned the company of men. One day while pulling the moon across the sky, she spotted the shepherd prince Endymion and fell in love. She put him into eternal sleep so he may never grow old or die, and together they had fifty daughters (and according to some also a son, Narcissus). The daughters ruled over each month that separates the Olympic games, since they happen every fifty months. She bore Zeus three daughters, Pandeia (goddess of brightness/sun), Ersa (goddess of the all-nourishing dew) and Nemeia. Some stories also state she was the mother of the Nemean Lion with Zeus. She also had an encounter with the great nature god Pan, who deceived her by wrapping himself in sheepskin and offered her a ride on his back. While they were airborne, he attacked her.
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She presumably had the same powers that Artemis has over the moon, but more advanced due to her being the very first lunar deity on top of being the moon incarnate (unlike Artemis who is just another moon goddess). Selene may have had powers over childbirth and night. That last one outing itself in umbrakinesis which could be used to render herself invisible and bend shadows to her will.
- Lunakinesis: She had power over the moon and moonlight
- Umbrakinesis: She had power over nightime
- Limited Hydrokinesis: She may have had power over the tides (being the moon goddess)