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Myths about Mortality

Explore myths connected by the recurring theme of Mortality across cultures, characters, and sacred places.

31 myths currently featured for Mortality.

Endymion’s Eternal Sleep and the Obsessive Love of Selene

🏛️ Greek MythologyMount Latmus, Caria, TurkeyEndymion • Selene • Zeus

This myth tells of the profound and haunting love between Selene, the Titan personification of the Moon, and a mortal shepherd named Endymion. To preserve his youth and beauty forever, Selene persuaded Zeus to place Endymion into an eternal, ageless slumber within a cave on Mount Latmus. There, she visits him every night, watching over his sleeping form as she traverses the night sky in her...