The silver lamp of night, measuring the months as she waxes and wanes.

Luna is the moon honored as a goddess in Roman religion, with a temple on the Aventine Hill whose founding tradition ascribes to king Servius Tullius. The anniversary of that temple was kept on the last day of March, and Ovid writes that the month closes with the worship of the Moon on the Aventine. In the old Roman reckoning the months themselves followed her, the Kalends of each month once proclaimed at the sighting of the new moon.

Often paired with Sol in Roman art and invocation. In later usage she is broadly associated with Diana, though the cults are distinct.