Selenium is an element that has a name similar to the goddess of the moon, Selene.
There was no Anglo-Saxon Goddess of the Moon. To the Anglo-Saxons, the moon was male, the sun female. The sun Goddess is named Sunne (sometimes Sunna or Sol) and the moon God's name is Mona (sometimes Mani). Yes, really. In Old English, -a on the end of a name designated the masculine gender.
It comes from the Latin word for moon, luna.
Radon does not have a specific Greek or Latin name. The name "radon" itself comes from the element's radioactive properties and was named after the element radium from which it is derived.
Ancient astronomers called the celestial object Selene the moon. Selene was the Greek goddess of the moon, and the name was often used interchangeably with Luna in Roman mythology.
The element name "Xenon" comes from the Greek word "xenos", meaning "strange" or "foreign". Xenon is a colorless and odorless gas that is found in trace amounts in Earth's atmosphere.
Selenium is derived from 'Selene', meaning moon.
It wouldn't be Luna or Diana. Selenium is named after the goddess of the moon, Selene.
The name Selene comes from a Greek word meaning "moon."
Seline is a minor Greek goddess. She was the goddess of the moon.
Luna sometomes lunar Diana is also the name for the roman goddess of the moon
Khonsu is their moon god. His name means traveler.
No not at all! If you want names that means moon goddess than they are Silene and Artemis because they are both goddesses of the moon.
It depends on the name of which moon goddess you are speaking of, generally goddesses are immortal and did not die.
selenium is the element whose name is moon in Greek
The moon named after Aphrodite is Adonis, a small moon of the planet Mars. The name Adonis comes from Greek mythology and is associated with Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.
Goddess of the moon. Great Queen. LOL Goddess of the moon. Great Queen. LOL
Goddess Of The Moon