Greek Titaness of the Moon
To Selene, Fumigation from Aromatics.
Hear, goddess queen, diffusing silver light,
bull-horned, and wandering through the gloom of night.
With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide night’s torch extending, through the heavens you ride:
...with silvery rays you shine,
and now full-orbed, now tending to decline. Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon,
whose amber orb makes night’s reflected noon: lover of horses, splendid queen of night,
all-seeing power, bedecked with starry light, lover of vigilance, the foe of strife,
in peace rejoicing, and a prudent life:
fair lamp of night, its ornament and friend,
who givest to nature’s works their destined end. Queen of the stars, all-wise Goddess, hail! Decked with a graceful robe and amble veil.
Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, come, moony-lamp, with chaste and splendid light,
shine on these sacred rites with prosperous rays,
and pleased accept thy suppliants’ mystic praise.
-Orphic Hymn 9 to Selene (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)
This shrine maintained by
Meryt
