We should all call the first quarter moon the waxing half moon and the third quarter moon the waning half moon.

Ancient names for the moon. The moon is clearly showing half a moon. Latin name meaning cheerful. Menodora f Ancient Greek Means gift of the moon derived from Greek μήνη mene meaning moon and δῶρον doron meaning gift.

Names like Callisto Titan or Prometheus. For millennia people across Europe as well as Native American tribes named the months after features they associated with the. Wolf or Old Moon after Yule February.

Other names include chaste moon death moon crust moon and sap moon after the tapping of the maple trees. Most frequently the ancient Egyptians interpreted these two lights as the eyes of Re or of the sky god Horus whose left eye was the Moon and whose right eye was the sun. Confusingly astronomers actually call the half moon a quarter moon.

Hebrew name for white moon. Bendis was the goddess of the moon and hunting in Trachia the ancient kingdom which spread across parts of present-day Bulgaria Greece and Turkey. This was the name of a 4th-century saint who was martyred with her sisters Metrodora and Nymphodora.

The moon and the sun were commonly referred to by the ancient Egyptians as the two lights and the weaker light of the Moon is compared to the evening Sun. 13 rows Great Spirit Moon. Armenian name for moon.

Regular people call it a half moon even though astronomers call it a quarter moon. But theres one moon in the Solar System with a super boring name the one youre most familiar with. One of the moons of Neptune.