Goddesses of the Moon

Name derived from Selene (Greek goddess of the moon was meant to show the close relationship to the previously discovered tellurium (from tellus (Latin = Earth))... 

Selenium - the atomic number is 34 and the chemical symbol is Se. The name derives from the Greek Selene, who was the Greek goddess of the moon because the element is chemically found with tellurium (Tellus - the Roman goddess of the earth). It was discovered by the Swedish chemist Jons Jacob Berzelius in 1817, while trying to isolate tellurium in an impure sample. 

A young man in his twenties takes mushrooms in a cow pasture in Southern Louisiana and has a vision of the Moon as the pregnant Cat Goddess Bastet he was struck by parallels to the vision of Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed, reported in the book on Ayahuasca experiences. 

Unlike ourselves, the people of long ago who worshipped those goddesses observed the Moon carefully and were fully aware of its location. Over time, they discovered that the monthly journey of the Moon as it waxed and waned both reflected and supported the pattern of human activity. 

Only seven heroes harrowed hell to return from this paradise called Caer Sidi. " These are all sun-heroes Daedalus with the assistance of the Moon Goddess, Theseus who killed the Minotaur, Hercules, Orpheus and 3 others. The last three will be among the heroes Amathon, Arthur and Gwydion in Britain Harpocrates, Kay, Owain and Cuchulain in Ireland. 

Moreover, Jeremiah complains that even the remnant who fled to Egypt after the fall of Jerusalem would not abandon this custom, and to his protests gave an answer which explains exactly the purpose of these obscene emblems, and of similar incidents connected with the worship of the great Fertility Goddess, who by then had largely absorbed the attributes of the Moon, just as her son and lover has partly absorbed those of the Sun. 

Considering the importance placed on the sun, particularly the moments of sunrise and sunset as sacred times, it is not surprising that Egyptians were keenly aware of the east, where the sun rose, the west, where the sun set, and the north and the south which formed the perpendicular axes. Most of their sacred structures reflect this awareness in both alignment and symbolism. Isis son, Horus, who was the god of both the sun and the moon, had four sons of his own, who represented the four cardinal directions. Each had the head of a different creature, and each was associated with organs of the body and with a goddess as shown in Table 1.2. 

At the same time, she was formulating a theory about Aphrodite, and she was keen to keep an eye on the goddess. But for the present, Aphrodite had confined herself to the role of passive observer, sharing a sofa with Dusha, her face as serene and neutral as the moon s. And everything beyond it, as a result, a mystery. 

My vision of Bastet certainly aligned her with the Moon. Though I have not found any scholarly research linking her with the lunar, still in all, it is very strange to consume magic mushrooms in Louisiana and see an Egyptian goddess. 

Interestingly enough, Bastet is known as the devouring lady. Gurdjieff believed that the Moon eats us when we die. But foremost she is protectress, especially of those who care for cats (neither Marc nor I had a cat at the time). Later she became the life-preserving goddess of joy and the protector of women. She took on an appearance of cat as sex symbol. I would have to describe the vision I had of her as sexy. On another note of interest, she defended her father Ra, the Sun, against his only real enemy, the serpent Apep. 

He gave it the name selenium after the moon goddess Selene. Tellurium, named after the Roman god of the earth, had been isolated a few years earlier. 

Antimony was purified with iron or Mars, just as in the modem industrial process of extracting antimony from stibnite ore. When they saw the pure white vapor of antimony rise, the alchemists likened it to a white virgin queen, the moon goddess, and called it the Philosophers Mercury. This Mercury should not be confused with metallic Mercury, which is always poisonous if used alchemically. 

The metamorphosis of the festival of Lenaea, the Festival of the Wild Women, in Athens demonstrates the attack of the Indo-Hittites on the Triple Goddess. At first, Hera tore apart an adult male. After the Indo-Hittite revision, a male child substituted for the mature male victim. A kid then replaced the male child. Finally, orgiastic moon-priestesses cut into nine pieces and sacrificed a bull representing Dionysus. ... 

The Israelites indeed recognized these two subordinate deities as Yahweh s two wives Ashima Baetyl and Anatha Baetyl. They represented the Moon and Wisdom respectively. The sex change of Sin to Ashima is a fundamental subject of esoteric religion. Anatha was equivalent to Ishtar, the Indo-Hittite Lion or Cat goddess of love and war. 

The Nabatean storm god was Duchares who was later identified with Dionysus. Like Yahweh, the Nabateans worshipped Duchares on high rocky places. However, both Duchares and his consort, the fertility goddess, were subservient to the Moon God. We continue to see the triple character of God represented by three deities. 

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