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Nightmare moon can become 3 beings because Faust is a woman of culture who based her off of old mythologies of the moon, this part is specifically from ancient Greece
three Gorgones (= Hekatê Triformis), Medousa ‘the Ruler’ (= the King or Queen-moon), Stheinô or Sthenô ‘the Strong’ (= the general Nocturnal-potency), and Euryalê ‘the Wide-wandering’ (= the Moon ‘wandering companionless’ 5), a phase which corresponds with the solar...
This is an excerpt from "The Unicorn, A Mythological Investigation" by Robert Brown.