Moon

the Moon is the charioteer.

The Moon, bearing that jewel, conquered the citadels of the Asuras, the golden strongholds of the Dānavas.

His two eyes are the sun and the moon;

The moon was born from his mind;

Coming on, he distributes the portion to the gods — the moon stretches out long life.

And by night, both rich in bull-power — Sun and Moon, home-companions, for our dwelling;

As men rejoice on seeing the full moon, so is that king in whom his subjects rejoice one who observes the vow of the Moon.

A king should follow the brilliant conduct of Indra, of the Sun, of the Wind, of Yama, of Varuṇa, of the Moon, of Agni, and of the Earth.

Through his power, he is Agni and he is the Wind, he is the Sun, he is Soma, he is the King of Dharma (Yama);

The nakṣatras lost their radiance and the planets lost their lustre;

"As Rāma sleeps at night, the moon — embracing the sinless one as a father would — will refresh him, touching him with its cool rays.

Triśaṅku, the red-limbed one (Mars), Bṛhaspati, and Budha too — all the planets, malefic, drew close to the Moon and stood there in dreadful conjunction.

for thus he will know better that he ought to spend the days of his life according to the Moon.

When we had got ready to set out hither, the Moon met us, and commanded us first to greet the Athenians and their allies;

so that also all, when they went out of an evening, were wont to say, Boy, don’t buy a torch, for the moonlight is beautiful.

Now the moon follows the yearly courses of the sun in monthly spaces, whose thinnest light is made by its nearest approach to the sun, and its fullest by each farthest departure.

Do you think, then, that he cares when the Moon is in travail, by whom he is supposed to have been lulled to sleep, that she might kiss him sleeping?

And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bore great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven.

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …

For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios who is like the deathless gods.

Hail, white-armed goddess, bright Selene, mild, bright-tressed queen!

The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming raiment, and yoked her strong-necked, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month:

And when the god had duly finished all, he threw his sandals into deep-eddying Alpheus, and quenched the embers, covering the black ashes with sand, and so spent the night while Selene's soft light shone down.

And now the divine night, his dark ally, was mostly passed, and dawn that sets folk to work was quickly coming on, while bright Selene, daughter of the lord Pallas, Megamedes' son, had just climbed her watch-post, when the strong Son of Zeus drove the wide-browed cattle of Phoebus Apollo to the river Alpheus.

For already the altars had been consecrated to his father, and in mid-month the full evening’s eye shone brightly, the Moon on her golden chariot, and he had established the consecrated trial of the great games along with the four years’ festival beside the sacred banks of the Alpheus.

And what of the moon, Selene?

The moon is often called Σελαναία.

Σέλας (gleam) and φῶς (light) are the same thing.

Here indeed they found the secret name of the cow belonging to Tvaṣṭṛ — thus in the house of the Moon.

] "and is seen as one and as manifold, like the moon [reflected] in water;

Brahmā, Rudra, the Moon, Ākāśa, and Vāyu, the Sun, Varuṇa, Indra, and likewise Viṣṇu and Mitra—

is it mimes or your gods that you laugh at in the jests and tricks — the adulterer Anubis, and the masculine Moon, and Diana flogged, and the reading of dead Jupiter's will, and the three famished Herculeses mocked?

'In its own eclipse' = in a lunar eclipse.

'This' = the eclipse (*uparāgaḥ* (उपरागः)).

> In its own eclipse, the moon enters the earth's shadow;