It's time! No it's not Vader time, but another Greek Mythology love story, yay! This is the story between the personification of the moon and a shepherd. Sound like an unlikely romance? Well considering that shepherd had to spend a lot of time looking over the flock in the night it isn't hard to think that the Moon goddess would fall in love with him.
Gods these lambs are lazy, I always have to carry them all over the place
Our herding hero in this story was a handsome hunk named Endymion who would work the late shift in herding sheep and goat. Like a hobbit in The Shire, Endymion quite enjoyed working the flocks in his Arcadian paradise; never getting the ambition to want to do some better paying job.
Being young, he was able to stay up late to watch over the herd and strong enough to beat away any would be predators or thieves. He was quite good at his job and would always be trusted by the other shepherds to work at night. So in essence he was the Eddie Riggs of Ancient Greek husbandry, he was never the showoff. (Then again being a good shepherd doesn't really give you the right to be a showoff)
He was credited for being the first human to observe the movements of the moon. However, by doing this and being the beautiful youth that he was, this would directly lead him to be the unknowing lover of the moon that he so carefully watched in the star filled skies.
It's images like this that has me hearing classical music in my head for some reason.
Selene was the goddess of the moon, though most assume that was Artemis, who's parents were the Titans Hyperion and Theia. This is probably because neither of her parents sided with the Titans during the Titanomachy so they weren't punished when the Olympians took over.
Her brother was Helios, who became the personification of the sun, while her sister was Eos, who was the personification of the dawn. After the divine twins of Apollo and Artemis came along, they took over the roles in a sense that they were the bosses over Helios and Selene. Basically, Artemis and Apollo were the Garret twins and they were the escorts.
Selene was in charge of driving her chariot which was pulled by either oxen or two serpentine dragons over the course of the night. The chariot itself was the moon or "pulling" the moon, but the imagine of a beautiful maiden driving a chariot pulled by dragons is distracting me in its awesome metalness.
Hey kid with the butterfly wings, turn off the lights!
While making her rounds one night, Selene caught her eye a hunky shepherd all by himself in a field. She fell in love with the youth like WALL-E seeing EVE for the first time. Nothing else mattered, she had to have him be her lover.
So like any stereotypical teenage chick with a crush, what did she do? She resorted to stalking of course! Yes Selene was acting like Brainy from Hey Arnold! (Albeit without the creepy breathing patterns and that she only got to see this shepherd boy at night.) However creepy it may seem to us modern folk, she was still a goddess and if we called her out on it she would probably cause us to lose our minds and become lunatics.
It's like necrophilia, except he is still alive and not cold!
While she was ogling him one night, a sudden depressing thought came up in her head. That thought was the thing that both god's and mortals fear in their love lives, aging. And as someone who was emotionally scarred of this because I watched the Bicentennial Man at a young age, I can kind of relate with Selene here.
To prevent this, she went up to Zeus, who of course was Endymion's father and asked him to give his son immortality in the form of eternal youth. Zeus granted her wish, but not in a way she expected, for Endymion would be forever eternally youthful, but he would also be put into an eternal sleep. (And this was Zeus' kid for heaven's sake!)
After Endymion was in this eternal stupor, Selene would visit her Prince Valium every night in a cave at Mt. Latmus and then would have sex with his sleeping body. (Glad to know one part of his body was awake) Through this Endymion fathered FIFTY children with Selene and thankfully for him, he was about as awake as me watching Andy Warhol's Empire all the way through in its entirety. These offspring between the moon goddess and Endymion would go on to be called the Menae, with one of them being the nymph Naxos who of course was the reason there is an island named Naxos.
And so our story ends, with the moon perpetually being with her unknowing lover who has slept longer than Cthuhlu and has no chance to ever wake up no matter how the stars are aligned. To end this I found this metal song from a Finnish Power Metal band called Sonata Artica. Enjoy
Man I'm glad that I kind find at least one metal song about the myth I'm talking about.
Gods these lambs are lazy, I always have to carry them all over the place
Our herding hero in this story was a handsome hunk named Endymion who would work the late shift in herding sheep and goat. Like a hobbit in The Shire, Endymion quite enjoyed working the flocks in his Arcadian paradise; never getting the ambition to want to do some better paying job.
Being young, he was able to stay up late to watch over the herd and strong enough to beat away any would be predators or thieves. He was quite good at his job and would always be trusted by the other shepherds to work at night. So in essence he was the Eddie Riggs of Ancient Greek husbandry, he was never the showoff. (Then again being a good shepherd doesn't really give you the right to be a showoff)
He was credited for being the first human to observe the movements of the moon. However, by doing this and being the beautiful youth that he was, this would directly lead him to be the unknowing lover of the moon that he so carefully watched in the star filled skies.
It's images like this that has me hearing classical music in my head for some reason.
Selene was the goddess of the moon, though most assume that was Artemis, who's parents were the Titans Hyperion and Theia. This is probably because neither of her parents sided with the Titans during the Titanomachy so they weren't punished when the Olympians took over.
Her brother was Helios, who became the personification of the sun, while her sister was Eos, who was the personification of the dawn. After the divine twins of Apollo and Artemis came along, they took over the roles in a sense that they were the bosses over Helios and Selene. Basically, Artemis and Apollo were the Garret twins and they were the escorts.
Selene was in charge of driving her chariot which was pulled by either oxen or two serpentine dragons over the course of the night. The chariot itself was the moon or "pulling" the moon, but the imagine of a beautiful maiden driving a chariot pulled by dragons is distracting me in its awesome metalness.
Hey kid with the butterfly wings, turn off the lights!
While making her rounds one night, Selene caught her eye a hunky shepherd all by himself in a field. She fell in love with the youth like WALL-E seeing EVE for the first time. Nothing else mattered, she had to have him be her lover.
So like any stereotypical teenage chick with a crush, what did she do? She resorted to stalking of course! Yes Selene was acting like Brainy from Hey Arnold! (Albeit without the creepy breathing patterns and that she only got to see this shepherd boy at night.) However creepy it may seem to us modern folk, she was still a goddess and if we called her out on it she would probably cause us to lose our minds and become lunatics.
It's like necrophilia, except he is still alive and not cold!
While she was ogling him one night, a sudden depressing thought came up in her head. That thought was the thing that both god's and mortals fear in their love lives, aging. And as someone who was emotionally scarred of this because I watched the Bicentennial Man at a young age, I can kind of relate with Selene here.
To prevent this, she went up to Zeus, who of course was Endymion's father and asked him to give his son immortality in the form of eternal youth. Zeus granted her wish, but not in a way she expected, for Endymion would be forever eternally youthful, but he would also be put into an eternal sleep. (And this was Zeus' kid for heaven's sake!)
After Endymion was in this eternal stupor, Selene would visit her Prince Valium every night in a cave at Mt. Latmus and then would have sex with his sleeping body. (Glad to know one part of his body was awake) Through this Endymion fathered FIFTY children with Selene and thankfully for him, he was about as awake as me watching Andy Warhol's Empire all the way through in its entirety. These offspring between the moon goddess and Endymion would go on to be called the Menae, with one of them being the nymph Naxos who of course was the reason there is an island named Naxos.
And so our story ends, with the moon perpetually being with her unknowing lover who has slept longer than Cthuhlu and has no chance to ever wake up no matter how the stars are aligned. To end this I found this metal song from a Finnish Power Metal band called Sonata Artica. Enjoy
Man I'm glad that I kind find at least one metal song about the myth I'm talking about.
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