copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
Selene – Mythopedia Selene, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, was the personification of the moon and a goddess of the night The love of her life was the handsome Endymion, who became Selene’s eternally slumbering consort
Endymion – Mythopedia Endymion, son of Aethlius and Calyce, was a king of Elis whose remarkable beauty won him the love of Selene, goddess of the moon In the best-known tradition, the gods caused Endymion to fall into an eternal sleep so that he would remain young and handsome forever
Homeric Hymns: 32. To Selene (Full Text) - Mythopedia TO SELENE (1–20) And next, sweet voiced Muses, daughters of Zeus, well-skilled in song, tell of the long-winged [1] Moon From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and embraces earth; and great is the beauty that ariseth from her shining light The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her
Theia – Mythopedia Theia was one of the Greek Titans who fought against the Olympians in their celestial war, the Titanomachy She married her brother Hyperion and eventually gave birth to the gods of the sun, the moon, and the dawn
Hyperion – Mythopedia Hyperion was a Greek Titan who, along with most of his siblings, fought for the right to rule the cosmos but lost to the Olympians Rarely mentioned in myths, he is best known for fathering the gods of the sun, moon, and dawn
Helios – Mythopedia Helios, son of Hyperion and Theia, was the personification of the sun and a god of the day Crowned with rays of golden sunlight and riding his blazing chariot, Helios represented the sun’s daily journey across the sky
Eos – Mythopedia Eos, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, was the goddess of the dawn; she rode her chariot across the sky at the beginning of each day, dispersing the night Eos took many mortal lovers, including the handsome prince Tithonus, whom she inadvertently doomed to a terrible fate
Pan – Mythopedia Pan was the infamous god of shepherds and goatherds who hailed from Arcadia He was part-human and part-goat, and his days in the woods and countryside were spent singing, dancing, hunting, chasing nymphs, and playing his reed pipes
Hecate – Mythopedia Hecate, daughter of Asteria and Perses, was a powerful but mysterious goddess usually associated with magic, witchcraft, and the Underworld Though often an object of dread, Hecate was sometimes seen as a kind goddess and a protector of justice
Adonis – Mythopedia Adonis was a young man so handsome that he earned the affections of Aphrodite, the goddess of love herself His myth ended tragically when he was slain by a boar while hunting