"Phoebe was traditionally associated with the moon (see Selene), as in Michael Drayton's Endimion and Phœbe (1595), the first extended treatment of the Endymion myth in English.
Her consort was her brother Coeus, with whom she had two daughters, Leto, who bore Apollo and Artemis, and Asteria, a star-goddess who bore an only daughter Hecate.
Given the meaning of her name and her association with the Delphic oracle, Phoebe was perhaps seen as the Titan goddess of prophecy and oracular intellect.
Given that Phoebe symbolized prophetic wisdom
just as Coeus represented rational intelligence,
the couple may have possibly functioned together
as the primal font
of all knowledge in the cosmos."
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(In retrospect, delete the absurd notions and pranks that seemed cogent in late night revelry or haze.)
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