In
Greek mythology
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, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia (, meaning "all brightness") was a daughter of
Zeus
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Zeus is the child ...
and the goddess
Selene
In ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion, religion, Selene (; , meaning "Moon")''A Greek–English Lexicon's.v. σελήνη is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene (), she is traditionally the daughter ...
, the Greek personification of the moon. From the ''
Homeric Hymn to Selene'', we have: "Once the Son of Cronos
euswas joined with her
elenein love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods." An Athenian tradition perhaps made Pandia the wife of
Antiochus, the eponymous hero of
Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes (
''phylai'').
Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, but by at least the time of the late ''Homeric Hymn'', Pandia had become a daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia (or Pandia Selene) may have personified the full moon, and an Athenian festival called the
Pandia (probably held for
Zeus
Zeus (, ) is the chief deity of the List of Greek deities, Greek pantheon. He is a sky father, sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Zeus is the child ...
) was perhaps celebrated on the full-moon and may have been connected to her.
[Robertson]
p. 75 note 109
Willets, pp
178–179
Cook
732
Harpers
"Selene"
Smith
"Pandia"
''Lexica Segueriana'' s.v. Πάνδια ( Bekker
p. 292
; Photius
Photius I of Constantinople (, ''Phōtios''; 815 – 6 February 893), also spelled ''Photius''Fr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., and Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Mate ...
, ''Lexicon'' s.v. Πάνδια.
Notes
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