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The festival of Juno Regina fell on September 1, followed on the 13th of the same month by that of Juno Regina Capitolina. October 1 was the date of the Tigillum Sororium in which the goddess was honoured as Juno Sororia. The last of her yearly festivals was that of Juno Sospita on February 1. It was an appropriate date for her celebration ...
Kabigat (Bontok mythology): the goddess of the moon who cut off the head of Chal-chal's son; her action is the origin of headhunting [6]; Bulan (Ifugao mythology): the moon deity of the night in charge of nighttime [7]
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (/ s ɪ ˈ l iː n iː /; Ancient Greek: Σελήνη pronounced [selɛ̌ːnɛː] seh-LEH-neh, meaning "Moon") [3] is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene (MEH-neh), she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and ...
The title lucina (from the Latin lux, lucis, "light") links both Juno and Diana to the light of the Moon, the cycles of which were used to track female fertility as well as measure the duration of a pregnancy. Priests of Juno called her by the epithet Juno Covella on the new moon. [1]
The Kalends of every month, when according to the lunar calendar the new moon occurred, was sacred to Juno, as all Ides were to Jupiter. [18] On the Nones, she was honored as Juno Covella, Juno of the crescent moon. [19] Both Juno and Diana were invoked as childbirth goddesses with the epithet Lucina. [20]
Juno Borrowing the Belt of Venus is a 1781 history painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. [1] It depicts a scene from Greek and Roman Mythology.Taken from a passage in Homer's Iliad it shows the Goddess Juno borrowing the Girdle of Aphrodite from Venus in her efforts to seduce Jupiter.
Ted Lasso star Juno Temple and boyfriend Michal Szymanski, also an actor, have been making appearances on the red carpet since 2022. ... The couple was photographed holding hands in New York City ...
Lua, goddess to whom soldiers sacrificed captured weapons, probably a consort of Saturn. Lucina, goddess of childbirth, but often as an aspect of Juno. Luna, goddess of the moon. Lupercus, god of shepherds and wolves; as the god of the Lupercalia, his identity is obscure, but he is sometimes identified with the Greek god Pan.