Selene

The Moon Goddess and the Cave Oracle

Steve Moore, Bob Rickard, Alan Moore

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Strange Attractor Press
23 January 2024

History; Mind, Body, Spirit

An examination of the myths of the Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in ancient Greece.

An examination of the myths of the Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in ancient Greece.

Waxing and waning and reborn with each new month, the Moon has always been the supreme symbol of cyclical change in the western world.

Metaphorical representations of the Moon's goddess also seem to undergo similar changes, each new century reinventing her in its own image. For Hesiod, she was a distant figure in the celestial pantheon, to Keats she was an intimate muse; Selene's recurring role in music, literature, and song is a powerful testament to our continued fascination with her myth.

A deeply erudite and meticulously researched survey, this book explores the perennial curiosity our closest orbital neighbor continues to instill, providing at once an unprecedented body of historical research and a critical armature for the author's lauded prose reverie Somnium.

Despite the importance of the Moon to recent developments in esoteric scholarship and mythography, Selene doesn't attempt to present a ""Moon-Goddess for the twenty-first century,"" but rather looks at the myths of one specific Moon goddess and how she appeared to the original creators of those myths in the literature of ancient Greece.

In doing so, Selene marks the point at which classical scholarship comes closest to a physical embrace with its ethereal subject matter.

By: Steve Moore
Afterword by: Alan Moore
Foreword by: Bob Rickard
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781913689063
ISBN 10: 1913689069
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 23 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Until his death in 2014, Steve Moore wrote comic books, novels and nonfiction, including his study of the I-Ching, The Trigrams of Han, his critically acclaimed novel, Somnium, and the posthumous collection of short fantasy stories, Tales of Telguuth. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with Fortean Studies and Fortean Times, to which he was a frequent contributor from their inception.