"As wind rises, golden Phoebe [Luna-Selene] ever blushes. But if at her fourth rising--for that is our surest guide--she pass through the sky clear and with undimmed horns, then all that day, and the days born of it to the month's end, shall be free from rain and wind."
Virgil, Georgics 1. 426
🏛️ Roman oil lamp decorated with the goddess #Luna
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I love how the picture is marked as “Sensitive content”, as if the usage of burning lamps was shocking enough to hide for sensitive eyes in a time of elevated CO₂ and climate change.
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