According to Robert Graves’ writings (and others), the goddesses and gods of mythologies change over time.
Mani, called Mona by songwriter Bob Dylan, is the god of the moon, and Sol, the goddess of the sun, each pursued by a wolf across the sky.
That is, until gender roles are reversed: the moon, having no light of its own, is now seen as reflecting light from the sun.
The eternal power of the wildwood White Goddess, with her three faces of birth, love, and death, is truncated by patriarchal society.
According to Greek mythology, Apollo, the sun-god, is male; Zeus, like Baal, is the male god of thunder, lightening, and rain.
Adulterous Zeus, often disguised, impregnates females, whether they be humans or deities.
Miss Mona’s in prison, denied bail, in the humorous, satiric song below:
Well, the rainman comes with his magic wand And the judge says 'Mona can't have no bond' And the walls collide, Mona cries And the rainman leaves in the wolfman's disguise (Bob Dylan: I Wanna Be Your Lover)
Three miles north of Purgatory One step from the great beyond I prayed to the cross, I kissed the girls And I crossed the Rubicon ..... Mona baby are you still on my mind I truly believe you are Couldn't be anybody else but you Who's come with me this far (Bob Dylan: Crossing The Rubicon)
In Greek mythology, the three-faced goddess Hecate inhabits the dark side of the moon; she’s stuck between Heaven and Hell, like a usurer in Purgatory.
She is by no means helpless. A Titan, Helcate be ~ she’s one-part maiden, one-part mother, one-part crone, and she’s angry at Cronus for swallowing his own children.
A sun-god she is not, but Hecate guides souls to the afterlife, and with her powers of witchcraft, she helps the Olympians defeat the Titans, most of whom are sent off to Tartarus, the dark side of the Underworld.
In Egyptian mythology, Ra, who’s depicted as having a head of a falcon, and a solar-disc situated thereon, is the male sun-god who disappears into the Underworld at night; his son is Horus, his daughter, Hathor; they protect the supposed proper order of the cosmos from the coils of chaos, personified as a giant snake. Reminds one of the Golden Ram story in the mythology of Jason And The Argonauts.
“Ramona” entangles “Ra” with “Mani-Mona”, the goddess of the moon.
In the song beneath, the narrator brings the shadows of ancient mythologies
forward into the present day:
Everything passes, everything changes Just do what you think you should do And some day maybe Who knows baby I'll come crying to you (Bob Dylan: To Ramona)