Latin name meaning cheerful.

Ancient names for the moon. For millennia people across Europe as well as Native American tribes named the months after features they associated with the. Regular people call it a half moon even though astronomers call it a quarter moon. Other names include chaste moon death moon crust moon and sap moon after the tapping of the maple trees.

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. Armenian name for moon. 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. But theres one moon in the Solar System with a super boring name the one youre most familiar with. Menodora f Ancient Greek Means gift of the moon derived from Greek μήνη mene meaning moon and δῶρον doron meaning gift.

Meztli m f Aztec and. Of the Raccoon Moon When Trees. She was associated with Artemis and Persephone by the ancient Greeks.

The ancient Trachians called her Dilonchos meaning The Goddess with the Double Spear for several reasons. 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. Portuguese name for moon.

Native Americans called this last full moon of winter the worm moon after the worm trails that would appear in the newly thawed ground. One of the moons of Jupiter. The moon is clearly showing half a moon.