History Main / GodOfTheMoon

* Myth/GuancheMythology has Achuguayo, a male moon god. He is often clled "the father of time" due to the moon's role in measuring time.

* ''WesternAnimation/DotaDragonsBlood'':Selemene is the Moon goddess in this setting. At least after having ousted the old one, Mene. Curiously she seems to exist as a seperate entity from the two moons in this setting.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** Selûne is the goddess of the moon. She's venerated in Faerûn as a goddess of light, stars, navigation, navigators, wanderers, questers, and Good-aligned lycanthropes. Much like the moon itself has phases, so too does Selûne. Mostly, Selûne is caring and accepting of most beings, and forgiving of most of her followers' faults, but she could also be aggressive and melancholy in the face of tragedy or hardship. She also controlled the tides across the world, much like the actual moon does on Earth. On top of that, Selûne was one of the more well-known gods in the Forgotten Realms because she was generous with gifts, blessings, and favors, as well as responding to just about every request made of her.
** Eilistraee plays with this. She's a ChaoticGood drow goddess -- in fact, she's [[TokenGoodTeammate the only one of the Dark Seldarine who isn't Evil-aligned]]. Her rituals usually take place at night, her shadow is said to sometimes appear on the full moon to her followers, candles in her temples sometimes glow with moonlight instead of flame, and her holy symbol involves a crescent moon. However, she's the god of beauty, song, dance, freedom, moonlight, swordplay, and hunting, with moonlight being only a small part of her domain. Mostly, she wants to encourage the drow to make a HeelFaceTurn and rejoin the races on the surface. Most of her rituals take place at night because [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight usually weakens the drow]], and to reflect TheSacredDarkness involved with her.[[invoked]]

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Selûne, called Our Lady in Silver and the Moonmaiden by her followers, is Faerûn's primary lunar deity. She is also associated with stars, navigators, non-evil lycanthropes, and cycles -- the phases of the moon itself, the rising and falling of the tides, the reproductive cycles of living beings, and the shifting of lycanthropes' forms. This is reflected in her physical appearance as well; she appears in a number of forms, primarily as one of the three stages of the [[TheHecateSisters maiden/mother/crone]] triad, and if observed for long enough she can be seen to gradually age and fade before just as gradually rejuvenating. Her greatest enemy is her twin sister Shar, the evil [[GodOfDarkness goddess of darkness and the night]], and the two are locked into a constant struggle for control of the nighttime hours.

** Selûne is the goddess of the moon. She's also venerated in Faerûn as a goddess of light, stars, navigation, navigators, wanderers, questers, and goodly lycanthropes. Much like the moon itself has phases, so too does Selûne. Mostly, Selûne is caring and accepting of most beings, and forgiving of most of her followers' faults, but she could also be aggressive and melancholy in the face of tragedy or hardship. She also controlled the tides across the world, much like the actual moon does on Earth.
** Eilistraee plays with this. She's a ChaoticGood drow goddess -- in fact, she's [[TokenGoodTeammate the only one of the Dark Seldarine who isn't Evil-aligned]]. Her rituals usually take place at night, her shadow is said to sometimes appear on the full moon to her followers, candles in her temples sometimes glow with moonlight instead of flame, and her holy symbol involves a crescent moon. However, she's the god of beauty, song, dance, freedom, moonlight, swordplay, and hunting. Moonlight is only a small part of her domain. Mostly, she wants to encourage the drow to make a HeelFaceTurn and rejoin the races on the surface. Most of her rituals take place at night because [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight usually weakens the drow]], and to reflect TheSacredDarkness involved with her.[[invoked]]

** Selûne is the goddess of the moon. She's also venerated in Faerûn as a goddess of light, stars, navigation, navigators, wanderers, questers, and goodly lycanthropes. Much like the moon itself has phases, so too does Selûne. Mostly, Selûne os caring and accepting of most beings, and forgiving of most of her followers' faults, but she could also be aggressive and melancholy in the face of tragedy or hardship. She also controlled the tides across the world, much like the actual moon does on Earth.
** Eilistraee plays with this. She's a ChaoticGood drow goddess -- in fact, she's [[TokenGoodTeammate the only one of the Dark Seldarine who isn't Evil-aligned]]. Her rituals usually take place at night, her shadow is said to sometimes appear on the full moon to her followers, and her holy symbol involves a crescent moon. However, she's the god of beauty, song, dance, freedom, moonlight, swordplay, and hunting. Moonlight is only a small part of her domain and doctrine. Mostly, she wants to encourage the drow to make a HeelFaceTurn and rejoin the races on the surface. Most of her rituals take place at night because [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight usually weakens the drow]], and to reflect TheSacredDarkness involved with her.[[invoked]]

** In Eorzea, Menphina is worshipped as the goddess of the moon and love, as well as the lover of Oschon, god of travelers. She's particularly revered by the Keeper of the Moon tribes of Miqo'te.

* ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'': Artemis is a goddess of the moon and the hunt who only appears in ''VideoGame/MemoriaFreese'' and the ''Anime/ArrowOfTheOrion'' movie. She's described as an aloof goddess who is skilled enough to fight monsters alongside her familia.

* ''Literature/TressOfTheEmeraldSea'': People on Lumar worship the planet's twelve moons as gods. They actually host powerful spirits called Aethers, but, as the LemonyNarrator notes, reverence is quite understandable when they hover physics-defyingly [[AlienSky low in the sky]], raining an AlienSea's worth of magical spores down on the planet.

* ''Literature/Moon1985'': A SerialKiller, known only as [[spoiler: Heckatty]], venerates Hecate. [[GodOfTheDead Overseer of the dead]] and patron of sorceresses, she's said, like the moon itself, to be fickle of character.

-->-- dogma of the Church of Selûne, ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3rd Edition]] supplement ''Faiths and Pantheons''

* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'': The BigBad is the Moon King, a deity who is ''literally'' blind to the good in humanity. He seems to be strongly based on the Japanese moon god Tsukuyomi, but he is credited as "[[SadlyMythtaken Raiden]]"[[note]]Raiden is the god of lightning, and also portrayed much more positively compared to the extremely malevolent Moon King and Tsukuyomi[[/note]] in the credits.

* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'': The BigBad is the Moon King, a deity who is ''literally'' blind to the good in humanity. He seems to be strongly based on the Japanese moon god Tsukuyomi (see below), but he is credited as "[[CriticalResearchFailure Raiden]]"[[note]]Raiden is the god of lightning, and also portrayed much more positively compared to the extremely malevolent Moon King and Tsukuyomi[[/note]] in the credits.

** The ancient Nehekharans worshipped two lunar goddesses. Neru was the goddess of Mannslieb, the silver moon; she was the wife of the [[GodOfLight sun god]] Ptra, the mother of the stars, and the welcomer of the dead into the afterlife. Sakhmet was the goddess of [[WierdMoon Morrslieb the Chaos Moon]], and was instead characterized as a jealous concubine seeking to usurp Neru's place.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The elven pantheon includes a version of TheHecateSisters whose Maiden goddess Lileath governs the moon Mannslieb, {{dream|Weaver}}s, [[LadyLuck fortune]], and [[{{Seers}} prophecy]]. Her mother is the [[MotherNature nature goddess]] Isha and her husband is Asuryan the TopGod of the [[GodOfLight Sun]]. (The [[WeirdMoon Chaos Moon]] Morrslieb is outside her jurisdiction.)

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheMoon'' is about a Chinese girl named Fei Fei who travels to the moon to meet Chang'e, who serves as the film's {{Deuteragonist}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheMoon'': Chang'e is the Chinese moon goddess and one of the primary characters in the film.

* Myth/ChineseMythology: The immortal Chang'e is associated with the moon, to which she was lifted after drinking an immortality elixir. In the modern day, she's the namesake of the Chinese lunar exploration program.

See also {{Lunacy}} and TheSacredDarkness. Not to be confused with TheManInTheMoon, which refers to the Moon itself being personified and anthropomorphized. See also MoonRabbit. Compare and contrast GodOfLight; in cases where lunar and solar gods are counterposed, LightDarknessJuxtaposition, NightAndDayDuo, and SolarAndLunar are all often in play. In cases where lunar deities are paired with solar ones.

Lunar deities often have close ties to [[GodOfLight solar gods]]. They are often depicted as [[NightAndDayDuo equals but opposites]], typically as siblings or spouses, who maintain opposing halves of the cosmic balance. [[MaleSunFemaleMoon This will often cast the lunar deity as a goddess and the solar one as a male god.]] However, the nature of their domains means that they can also find themselves separated from one another, as they enter the world during alternating and non-overlapping periods of the day. In some cases, however, these deities may be depicted as enemies or rivals, struggling for control of the sky and for worshippers. If the lunar deity is not opposed to the solar one, they may instead be enemies with a deity of darkness and, in these cases, may be portrayed as a God of Light themselves.

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Selûne, called Our Lady in Silver and the Moonmaiden by her followers, is Faerûn's primary lunar deity. She is also associated with stars, navigators, non-evil lycanthropes, and cycles -- the phases of the moon itself, the rising and falling of the tides, the reproductive cycles of living beings, and the shifting of lycanthropes' forms. This is reflected in her physical appearance as well; she appears in a number of forms, primarily as one of the three stages of the [[TheHecateSisters maiden/mother/crone]] triad, and if observed for long enough she can be seen to gradually age and fade before just as gradually rejuvenating. Her greatest enemy is her twin sister Shar, the evil goddess of darkness and the night, and the two are locked into a constant struggle for control of the nighttime hours.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ponyfinder}}'': The Moon Princess is Everglow's lunar deity, manifesting as a protective entity who wards away the terrors of the night. She typically visits her faithful in their dreams; when she appears in the physical world, she manifests by seeming to descend from the lunar orb itself. Her main rival is the Night Mare, a goddess of darkness and tyranny who wishes to take her role as the primary deity of nighttime and the moon.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Selene is as she is in the Greek myths, but is an anthropomorphic bird in this universe. Her role as Goddess of the Moon comes into play at the end of the second season, where she helps to defeat the [[{{Lunarians}} Moonlanders]]. Notably, unlike the myths she's not depicted as the actual, physical moon at all, residing on Mount Olympus.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Selene is as she is in the Greek myths, but is an anthropomorphic bird in this universe. Her role as Goddess of the Moon comes into play at the end of the second season, where she helps to defeat the [[{{Lunarians}} Moonlanders]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Selene is as she is in the Greek myths, but is an anthropomorphic bird in this universe. Her role as Goddess of the Moon comes into play at the end of the second season, where she helps to defeat the Lunarians.

** Artemis, originally a deity of the hunt, became tied to the Moon late in classical Greek history and eventually largely displaced Selene, and retained this role in her Roman incarnation as Diana.