Liber ab Luna (The Book of the Moon)^169
God Goddess
Apollo Diana
Jupiter Juno
Mars Venus
Mercury Ceres
Neptune Minerva
Vulcan VestaThe Olympians—Greek—MediterraneanGod Goddess
Hephaestus Aphrodite
Apollo Athena
Ares Artemis
Zeus Hera
Hermes Demeter
Dionysus
PoseidonThe Titans—Greek—Mediterranean
The Greek personification and gods of Nature. They are the 12 children of Gaia (Mother
Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). They are presented here as couples as each can be
found that way in lore.God Goddess
Cronos Rhea
Iapetus Themis
Oceanus Tethys
Hyperion Theia
Crius Mnemosyne
Coeus PhoebeThe 13 Moon Myth
And yet, with all of these cultures incorporating the lunar cycles into their 12 month
years, when my first book came out a fellow author took me aside and told me that I did
a good job on everything except the Moons. Per that friend’s observation, there are not
12 lunar cycles in the year, but 13. Could I have been that poorly informed?
In a desperate attempt to discover if I had just made a fool of myself, I must have
read every Pagan book on Moon lore. In so doing, I’d almost thought I was misled. It
seems the majority of our books do state that there are 13 moons in a year, not 12.q WB Chap 09.p65 169 7/11/2003, 5:53 PM