#triple moon

"O Nox [Nyx the Night], Mother of Mysteries, and all ye golden Astra (Stars) who with Luna [Selene the Moon] succeed the fires of day, and thou, divine triceps (three-formed) Hecate, who knowest all my enterprises and dost fortify the arts of magic."

𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑒.

This is actually a false assumption. The "triple moon" was an actual concept of Antiquity. But it is not as exactly as people are led to believe.

Because while it is true that, as time went by, the Ancient Greeks ended up having multiple deities embodying the moon (Selene, Hekate, Phoebe, etc, etc), the idea of the "triple moon" goddess came from the Romans. It was in their literature and poetry that they codified it and played on the idea of Hekate's trinity and multiplicity as a night-goddess to syncretize the various moon deities together.

It also makes sense because the Romans put a much bigger emphasis on the idea that Artemis (Diana for them) was a moon-goddess, much more than the Greeks.

So the Romans did claim that Luna (Selene) and Diana (Artemis) were two incarnations of the Moon Goddess, one for the moon in the heavens and upper, celestial realm, and one for the moon by the "earthly plane". And yes there was a third incarnation for the "moon by the underworld"... But it was not always "Trivia" (Hekate). Sometimes it was Trivia, but other times Hekate/Trivia was handled rather as the triple-moon in her entirety (drawing on the Greek tradition that Hekate had power over all three "realms" of the universe). But more often the "moon of the underworld" was... Proserpina. The Roman Persephone. Due to the Romans emphasizing a syncretism between Hekate/Trivia, as the chthonian goddess of dark things, with Prosperpina as the Queen of the Underworld.

My girlfriend wanted me to draw a wallpaper for her phone, taking inspiration from modern paganism, specifically the Triple Goddess idea.

It was originally going to be a genderbent Horned Goddess X Triple Goddess "Wiccan deity Yuri", but she decided the Horned God archetype isn't exactly necessary at all, and the Triple Goddess with the idea of cycles of nature, life, and society can easily be interpreted in ways that fit any other deity.

So, in line with her views of this (which make perfect sense to me anyway), and doing away with the unnecessary Horned God, I just made a Triple Yuri out of the three aspects of the Goddess, making it still trans (because who's to stop me from making a deity transfem? NO ONE, I tell you!), still sapphic, and now also poly.