One of the moons of Jupiter.

Ancient names for the moon. We should all call the first quarter moon the waxing half moon and the third quarter moon the waning half moon. Hebrew name for white moon. The moon is clearly showing half a moon.

The ancient Trachians called her Dilonchos meaning The Goddess with the Double Spear for several reasons. Other names include chaste moon death moon crust moon and sap moon after the tapping of the maple trees. Menodora f Ancient Greek Means gift of the moon derived from Greek μήνη mene meaning moon and δῶρον doron meaning gift.

Italian and Spanish name for moon. She was associated with Artemis and Persephone by the ancient Greeks. We call it the New Moon the Crescent Moon new and old the Gibbous Moon waxing waning the Half Moon the Quarter Moon first and last.

But theres one moon in the Solar System with a super boring name the one youre most familiar with. Names like Callisto Titan or Prometheus. 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. Traditional Full Moon Names. Portuguese name for moon.

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. Regular people call it a half moon even though astronomers call it a quarter moon. Of the Raccoon Moon When Trees.