Selene

The goddess of fortune telling and of the Moon. The gospel of Selene is mystical in the sense that the future is unpredictable for mortals, and yet causal and to a large degree predetermined. Mortal can see glimpses of the future by letting the soul dissolve and merge with Selene. Other gods may see the future, but restricted to the field of inquiry, that is, certain events, not the future as a whole. Selene alone is the future, She creates it by Her mere existence. The making of the future is an all-encompassing transcendental act that defies all attempts at understanding. Enki has created small isolated islands of reality, playgrounds suited to man's limited senses. If you put three stones in one scale, and two stones in the other scale, the scales will tip towards the three stones, if they are of equal weight. Infallible as this kind of logical counting of stones may appear, it is useless when the world is made up of an infinite number of interacting ever-changing components, each of which contribute uniquely to the whole, and whose combined effect is far more complicated and dynamic than a mere adding up of the individual contributions. The preachers of Selene are almost exclusively women, and her creed is combined with an emphasis on "female" intuition as opposed to "male" calculation. The exception to this rule is Rovia (and to a certain degree Azantir and Grone), where Selene is seen as a means for everybody to obtain a temporary unification with the cosmos. The Rovian worship of Selene is an integrated part of the legal system, and divine dreams are thought to be exclusively messages from Selene, as opposed to ordinary dreams, which are sent by Morpheus. Outside Rovia (Azantir and Grone), too close a contact with the cosmos is considered dangerous, since man was not made to fathom it. It should be left to the priestesses of Selene, if not, the danger of "lunacy" is overwhelming. The symbolic manifestation of Selene is the Moon, and the nature of the Moon in many ways reflects the nature of Selene. The Moon itself is barren, but is obviously tied to the cycles of nature. It is rhythmic, but not totally predictable. It shines, but is associated with darkness. In "I Remember What Will Be", the priestess Gerdales compares the wonderful and yet frustrating experience of seeing the future but being unable to pass the knowledge on to the light of the Moon: "I saw the future as if by moonlight, bright enough to understand, but too dark to write anything down. All you may have is my memory." Selene's priestesses may see events up to six months into the future, if concerning love or business. Apart from that they are gifted fortune tellers.
Holy days: Every full moon in Rovian. Symbol: Moon, usually a new moon