Chandra the Moon God in Hinduism
Moon is said to have been born out of the ocean when the gods churned the ocean to bring out the nectar, which they wanted to drink to attain immortality…
Luna the Moon Goddess of Rome
Ancient Rome adopted the Greek goddess Selene as Luna the Moon goddess. She was regarded as the feminine counterpart to Sol, the Sun god…
Selene the Moon Goddess of Ancient Greece
In ancient Greece and Rome, Moon was regarded as a feminine deity, in contrast to the Fertile Crescent and ancient Egypt, where we have seen that in most cases Moon was a masculine deity. In ancient Greece, Selene was the Moon goddess…
Iah the Egyptian Moon God
Moon deity was important because of its light in the night, because of its phases which were used to calculated the month and the agrarian cycle…
Yarikh the Moon God of Canaan
Sumerian Nanna was a derivative of the Canaanite Yarikh. The Moon god Yarikh had a special shrine at Jericho in the West Bank…
Nanna the Moon God of Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamians worshipped Nanna as the moon god. Since months were counted by the waxing and waning of the moon and the soothing moonlight was seen as nourishing as compared to the hot sun, Nanna was regarded as the lord of time and a sustainer of agriculture, life and prosperity…
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