The Greek geographer, Strabo, describes the ritual performed in honor of Selene by the Albanians in book 11 of his work, Geographica
Geographica 11.4.7

"Semele was worshipped at Athens during the Lenaea, the Festival of the Wild Woman, when a yearly bull, representing Dionysus, was cut into nine pieces and sacrificed to her: one piece being burned, the remainder eaten raw by the worshippers. Semele is usually explained as a form of Selene ('moon'), and nine was the traditional number of orgiastic moon-priestesses who took part in such feasts - nine such are shown dancing around the sacred king in a cave painting at Cogul, and nine more killed and devoured St Samson of Dol's acolyte in medieval times."₁

"The sign stood for SS in the earlier Greek script, and could also be read as the conjoined halves of the lunar month and all that these implied - waxing and waning, increase and decline, blessing and cursing. Animals which 'parted the hoof' were self-dedicated to the Moon - they are the sacrifices ordained at the New Moon Festivals in Leviticus - and the SS will therefore have referred to Selene the Moon, alias Aphrodite. The figure representing the full moon (as distinquished from O, representing the simple sun-disk) was marked on each flask of the sacred cow which directed Cadmus to the site of Themes."₂