Luna (goddess) Greek poet Hesiod, Hecate originally had power over the heavens, land, and sea, not as in the later tradition heaven, earth, and underworld. Luna (goddess) In ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin "luna"; cf. English "lunar"). She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun (Sol) conceived of as a god. Luna is also sometimes represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess ("diva triformis"), along with Proserpina and Hecate. "Luna" is not always a distinct goddess, but sometimes rather an epithet that specializes a goddess, since both Diana
Luna (goddess) black horse and one white." Luna in her "biga" was an element of Mithraic iconography, usually in the context of the tauroctony. In the mithraeum of S. Maria Capua Vetere, a wall painting that uniquely focuses on Luna alone shows one of the horses of the team as light in color, with the other a dark brown. A "biga" of oxen was also driven by Hecate, the chthonic aspect of the triple goddess in complement with the "horned" or crescent-crowned Diana and Luna. The three-form Hecate ("trimorphos") was identified by Servius with Luna, Diana, and Proserpina. According to the Archaic