Motion Source Goddess - Selu, Selene

Selene found on a woman's wrist in the "House of the Golden Bracelet" from Pompeii (70 CE).
Sela (Selene = "Powers of Sela") found on a woman's wrist in the "House of the Golden Bracelet" from Pompeii (70 CE). Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 14268
Selene found on a woman's wrist in the "House of the Golden Bracelet" from Pompeii (70 CE).
Selu found on a woman's wrist in the "House of the Golden Bracelet" from Pompeii (70 CE). Notice her raised arms holding up the night skyshell. The bracelet itself is a snake which represents the power of life and death from Kate/Hekate (the life power source goddess)
Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 14268

Feminine Motion Source Power Selu/Selene

(Updated April 25, 2024, Updated January 4, 2025)  Selu/Selene is the feminine emotion/motion source power.  Feminine powers either allocate or direct the raw power generated by their complementary masculine power which in this case is Su who creates the motions and emotions which change things. She is the goddess of celestial light and the inner spark of life in contrast to Su's darkness of the new moon and eye pupil. She allocates emotional arousal and emotional strength. Her celestial healing acts to keep emotions in balance.

The word “Selene” in Akkadian means “powers of Selu with its /en/ ending.” Her images show her with upraised arms indicating her celestial connection.

Greek writer Hesiod (500 BCE) in his Theogony said this about the goddess Selene in line 371 (the "clear" adjective in this text should be translated as "glowing": 

And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion (high watchers, divine sparks of consciousness) and bore great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven.Online at: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371

Despite this early mention here in Hesiod (and in Homer) no Greek temples were devoted to Selene indicating her foreign origin.

Selu/Selene Pot from Slovakia 4000 BCE

(December 7, 2024) Liquid pottery vessel representing the goddess Selu/Selene. From the Lengyel Culture, western Slovakia, 4,000's BCE. Museum Bratislava. The other side of this pot shows the breasts. Photo via Oliver Dietrich on Bluesky at: https://bsky.app/profile/oliverdietrich.bsky.social
Minoan Goddess Selu Figurines at Heraklion Museum

Minoan Goddess Sela/Selene Figurines at Heraklion Museum on Crete 1800 - 1400 BCE

(September 2, 2022) This picture shows Druid goddess Selu (Selene) figurines with their upraised hands behind the little girl to show their scale. This picture was taken in the Minoan Archaeological Museum in Heraklion Crete. 

These goddesses are a mix of colors and hand palm directions which seem to indicate how Selu's motion powers are being applied.  The red statuettes (red being the color of life) with hands towards each other indicate her motion power is being applied to the life powers, pushing the fertility fluids through the life network. In contrast, the white statuettes with hands forward indicate her motion powers are being applied to the winds to move boats and bring rain.

The Codex Runicus, shown above, was written in 1190 CE during the reign of Danish King Valdemar 1 according to the old Danish writing on its front page. This important book is the last testament of the Druids and the most complete statement of their philosophy which exists.
The Codex Runicus is now a part of the Arnamagnæan manuscript collection University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The collection in its entirety consists of approximately 3000 manuscript items, of which 1400 are in Copenhagen.
The collection is named after its founder, the Icelandic philologist and historian Árni Magnússon (Latinised as Arnas Magnæus, in Danish Arne Magnusson). Shortly before his death in 1730 he bequeathed his collection of manuscripts and printed books as well as his fortune to the University of Copenhagen, where he was professor of Danish antiquities.

References


Photos from: University of Copenhagen's Interactive Online Scan with Zoom: https://www.e-pages.dk/ku/579/
Dictionary used is always the latest version which is found on this site here.  
Letter Chart Used: Rune (North European) Letters

Sulu/Selene in the Codex Runicus From the Balkans 1190 CE

(January 5, 2025) The Codex Runicus describes the middle-ground Druid theology in which life powers can be properly associated with the magical motion/emotion powers. The life powers make the connection changes in the life network and the motion powers push the fertility-fluids through those connected threads/channels. This way dominate in Aegean Islands and mainland Europe. Contrast this way with the life power devotion of the Israelites and the magical motion/emotion power devotion of the Minoans and Phoenicians.

A debate between those devoted to the life powers and those devoted to the magical emotion/motion powers often breaks out during a drought when each side seeks to blame the other's powers for the drought. This has been good for history because these arguments have given us most of our archaeological stone texts because each side wants to write down their viewpoint on stone.  

By the time of the Codex Runicus, Selu/Selene was most often paired with Su using the epithet "Controllers" because the motion powers control all changes.

Selu/Selene

  1. The lack of involvement  :  of the Form-Revealer (Asher) can be narrowed-down  :  by the changes  ::  (Chapter 3) The High-life-power's eagle-vultures  :  can be nourished by opening the nourishments for Selu/Selene.  :  The Revealer (Kate/Hekate) from the life-priest-fathers  :  can be involved with that.   (page 6, verse 8)

Controllers

  1. The High-Life-Powers can manifest (changes of) the Controllers (Su, Selu/Selene).  :  Open involvement.  :  The zodiac-houses are activating fighting.  :  The boundary-powers are not pressuring the nourishments of the Moon-Eye (Su)  :  Gather-together the  emotional-arousals.    (page 3 , verse 14)
  2. High-Life-Powers can be manifested by the Controllers (Su, Selu/Selene).  :  The layout  :  will involve instigating and opening the form-manifestations by the Controllers.  :   The astrological-magic's activity  :  can prod the eagle-vultures which can prod those  :  designing-powers  :  (page 4 , verse 11)
  3. The Controllers (Su, Selene) :  can inhibit Kate.  :  Free-up the drivers (motion powers)  :  Manifest astrology-magic's activity  :  by involving that energy.  :  Thu is lacking the blessings of astrology-magic's activity.  :  Motion-changes  :  are being constrained.    (page 22 , verse 3)
  4. Lack  :  of changes  :  in the high-life-powers will manifest the Controllers.  :  High-life-powers can manifest the Controllers.  :  Open involvement  :  The high-life-powers can manifest the Controllers.  :  Exposure will manifest them.    (page 25, verse 11)
  5. Eagle-vultures  :  can expose the manifestations of the Controllers.  :  High-life-powers can manifest the Controllers.   :  Exposure can manifest the changes  :  by opening similar-things.  :  Exposure can manifest astrology-magic.   (page 25, verse 12)
This child's Punic gravestone with text found at Cirta (ancient Constantine, Algeria). It is now in the Louvre Museum in France. So far the word "Tanit" has not yet appeared in any properly translated Phoenician or Punic text. The image of "Tanit" is actually the goddess Sela/Selene.
Photo from Carol Raddato via Wikimedia Commons at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punic_stele_with_a_crescent_moon_and_the_sign_of_the_Phoenician_goddess_of_fertility_Tanit,_found_in_Cirta_(ancient_Constantine,_Algeria),_around_300-200_BC,_Louvre_Lens,_France_(26329653164).jpg

Punic Child Gravestone Text Blames Drought on Human Anger Overcoming Divine Powers (170 BCE)

(November 24, 2023) The top image of this gravestone shows the sky-shell with the dark new moon traveling along it indicating the text is about the emotion/motion powers. That turns out to be the case as the text is about motion/emotion powers affecting the life powers. 

The bottom shows an image of the celestial light goddess Selu/Selene. In the past these goddess images with upraised arms have been identified with a goddess called Tanit. No such goddess exists in properly translated texts.

 The central text says:

  1. Is not hope being revealed? Are not the nest's (life network) threads being starved of [word]?
  2. Anger is being poured-away.   The shepherds (emotion magic crafters) are nourishing the life-threads.  Astrology-magic can energize the involvement of the Revealer (Kate/Hekate)
  3. The nourishments can emotionally-affect life-manifestations. Threading the nest will make-scarce eagle-vulture chaos.
  4. Attention can be prodded by activity (motion powers).  Cannot the priest-parents shepherd the eagle-vultures?

The Etruscan/Roman Orator of Arringatore 400 BCE

(September 29, 2023) Letter assignments by Olmsted. Photo from corneliagraco (2010) with Creative Commons license at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/corneliagraco/5224852992/in/photostream

Translation in Akkadian (Med Text 40)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold)  
  1. A  ULu  EMu  Ya  |  Ṣu  ETu  ELu  IMu |  Pu  E.  |  Pu  EZu  Ya  ALu  |  Bu  Ku  E.  NaMu  Ya. (Med Text 40.1)
  2.  Bu  ENu  SeLu.  EDu  EMu  Tu.  EBu  ESu  ANu.  Mu  Lu  Ya  ENu.  [1]  Nu  E   (Med Text 40.2)

(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English

  1. Those Alu-powers (life-powers) are not being supervised.  |  Activity-levels of the boundary (sky shell network) are emotionally-triggered by the high-ones.  |  Openings are being ineffective.  |  Openings are not being frustrated by Alu-powers.  |  Nourishments are involved with nothing. Don't be a fertility-fluid revealer.
  2. Nourishments are being reassigned by Selu/Selene (celestial light goddess).  Motivations are being supervised by astrology-magic.  The sky-shell is filtering considerations (focused emotion of emotion magic). Fertility-fluids are not lacking  reassignments. [word]  are revealing nothing.

Etruscan: Piacenza Liver Right Inner Section 5 (500 BCE)

Translation in Akkadian (Celt Text 1.6.5)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. ŠeLu  NeZu  
  2. Ṭu  PaSu

In English

  1. Selu (Selene) is emptying
  2. Thu of light
The Kfar Varadim Bronze Ritual Bowl.  Iron Age II, 9th century BCE, H: 3; Diam: 14 cm, Israel Antiquities Authority Accession number: IAA 1999-842. (from  http://museum.imj.org.il/imagine/galleries/viewItemE.asp?case=14&itemNum=375137)

Above map copied from Nijboar (2008) 

Mauzizao Sannibale says this about this rare silver fluted bowl in his review of the artistic similarities between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean:
"The fluted bowl is another example of a ceremonial vase of eastern origin, adopted and reproduced in Etruria. Used only by the king and his officials in the Assyrian court, it became a symbol of rank in aristocratic Etruscan banquets and was employed symbolically in banquets of the dead and of the ancestors. The few imported examples can be identified by the dense fluting that became less pronounce and more widely spaced in the locally produced versions. In the Regoline-Galassi tomb, apart from an (this) example in silver there were also eleven bronze fluted bowls attached with nails to the walls of the main burial chamber and  possibly the antechamber. " (photo and quote from Sannibale 2016) 

Israel: Selu Mentioned on Kfar Varadim Bronze Ritual Bowl (650 BCE)

(Feb 12, 2023) This bowl was found in 1995 within an early Iron Age II archaeological layer in a burial cave. This cave was located in northern Galilee 10 miles (17 km) northeast of Acre and a few miles north of the Jezreel valley (Alexandre 2002a). In 1997 this bowl was cleaned and it was found to contain an inscription (Alexandre 2002b).  The bowl’s deposit layer of Iron Age II dates it to between 1000 and 600 BCE.  The Etruscans exported these sorts of ritual bowls between 750 and 600 BCE.

The letters on this bronze fluted serving bowl are a mix of Philistine and Israelite meaning it was written locally on a ritual bowl imported from Eturia. The language of the text is Akkadian. It reads: 

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. U  SeLu  E  ḪaBu  Nu  Ṣu  Mu  Le'u (Levant Text 3)

In English. 

  1. With Selu is not bringing passions for revelations activate fertility-fluids with astrological-powers

Selu is the Motion source goddess who represents the spark of animation (soul) as the source of emotions/motions and the glow of the heavenly bodies. Her masculine complement is the full moon god Su. The "revelations" mentioned in the text are the manifestations of invisible life forms provided by the life powers. For a form to be manifested it must be triggered by fertility fluids which in turn must be pushed though the channels of the life network either by emotion magic or astrological powers.

References

Sass, B. (2005) The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium. Tel Aviv. Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archeology

Alexandre Y. (2002a) The Iron Age Assemblage from Cave 3 at Kefar Veradim. In Gall 2002:53-63

Alexandre Y. (2002b) A Fluted Bronze Bowl with a Canannite – Early Phoenician Inscription from Kefar Veradim. in Gal 2002:65-74

Israel Museum - Online at http://museum.imj.org.il/imagine/galleries/viewItemE.asp?case=14&itemNum=375137

 Nijboar, A.J. (2008) Italy and the Levant during the late Bronze and Iron Ages (1200-750/700 BCE) Online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288952305_Italy_and_the_levant_during_the_late_bronze_and_iron_age_1200-750700_B_C

Sannibale, Mauzizao (2016) The Etruscan Orientalizing: The View from the Regolini-Galassi Tomb, In Assyrian to Iberia – Art and Culture in the Iron Age. Joan Aruz and Michael Seymour editors. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/36162300/The_Etruscan_Orientalizing_The_View_from_the_Regolini_Galassi_Tomb_in_Assyria_to_Iberia_Art_and_Culture_in_the_Iron_Age_edited_by_Joan_Aruz_and_Michael_Seymour_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_Symposia_New_York_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_2016_pp_296_315?email_work_card=title

(Obsolete) Olmsted, D. (Dec 3, 2020) Late Philistine/Phoenician Kfar Veradim Ritual Bowl Text Mentions How Astrological Fate is Overcoming Emotion Magic (730 BCE). Online at: https://www.academia.edu/44626186/Late_Philistine_Phoenician_Kfar_Veradim_Ritual_Bowl_Text_Mentions_How_Astrological_Fate_is_Overcoming_Emotion_Magic_730_BCE

Right Side of Hathor statuette found on the floor of the Hathor temple at the turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai
 Image from Butin 1932.
Left Side of Hathor statuette found on the floor of the Hathor temple at the turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai
These letters are too indistinct in this left side image to properly identify. Image from Butin 1932.

Sinai: Aegean Graffiti on Serabit el-Khadim Hathor Statuette Blames Goddess Selu (1470-1150 BCE)

(Jan 29, 2023) This red sandstone statuette was found on the floor of the Hathor temple at the turquoise mine at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai. It is blaming the life-priests with their grilled meat fat (aroma) offerings to Hathor (the feminine connective life power of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm).

Top Text in Akkadian (Sinai Text 5.3)

(right to left reading)
  1. selȗ mâ’u mu a

In English

  1. Selu is pushing away these fertility-fluids

Bottom Text in Akkadian (right to left reading)

  1. bu zu du

In English

  1. Nourishments are being eliminated by the life-powers

Translated Roman-Jewish War Silver Half Shekel Coin from Jerusalem
Coin is unprovenanced. 

Roman-Jewish War Half-Shekel with "Conflict" Label 66-70 CE

(Feb 18, 2023, Updated January 4, 2025) This is a silver half shekel.

The lady is the chalice is Kate/Hekate who has the power of life and death. The red Pomegranates represent life.

Chalice Side Translation (Lev 31.1)

In Akkadian

(read right to left)
Letter Chart Used: Levent Letter Lineage
  1. ŠeGu    (center label)
  2. ŠaQu  Lu  IŠRAL

In English

  1. For Conflict 
  2. Equalize the lack Israel

Pomegranate Side Translation (Lev 31.2)

In Akkadian

(read right to left)
  1.  IRu  Ṣu  ŠeLu.  IKu  EṬu.  DaṢu  Še  E

In English

  1. Astrological-fate-powers are activating Selu/Selene. The irrigated-field (life-network) has gone dark.  Disrespect makes ineffective the equality (between the motion/emotion powers and the life powers).