Luna (goddess) 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 and Juno are identified as moon goddesses. In Roman art, Luna attributes are the crescent moon plus the two-yoke chariot ("biga"). In the
Danu (Irish goddess) "*Danu" is derived from the same root as Latin "bonus" (Old Latin "duenos"), from Proto-Indo-European "*dueno-" "good", via a Proto-Celtic nominative singular n-stem "*Duonū" ("aristocrat"). Danu has no myths or legends associated with her in any surviving medieval Irish texts, but she has possible parallels with the Welsh literary figure Dôn, whom most modern scholars regarded as a mythological mother goddess in the medieval tales of the Mabinogion, despite the fact that Dôn's gender is never specified in the tales and was regarded as a man by some medieval Welsh antiquarians. Danu (Irish goddess) In Irish mythology, Danu (; modern