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A crescent shape (/ ˈ k r ɛ s ən t /, UK also / ˈ k r ɛ z ən t /) [1] is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase (as it appears in the northern hemisphere) in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.
Sealing depicting the Neo Sumerian King, Ibbi-Sin seated with a star or Dingir and crescent adjacent to him Depiction of the emblems of Ishtar (Venus), Sin (Moon), and Shamash (Sun) on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II (12th century BC) Venus, Sun and Moon on the Stele of Nabonidus (r. 556–539 BC) found at Harran (Şanlıurfa Museum) [10]
The Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus is a 1450s [1] painting by an unknown artist referred to as the “ Master of 1456 ”. [2]: 309, 312 [3] It is held by the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. [1] Hortus Conclusus is Latin for “enclosed garden”, a motif of biblical origin where the Virgin Mary herself is represented as a garden.
In Roman art, Luna attributes are the crescent moon plus the two-yoke chariot . In the Carmen Saeculare , performed in 17 BC, Horace invokes her as the "two-horned queen of the stars" ( siderum regina bicornis ), bidding her to listen to the girls singing as Apollo listens to the boys.
As the Moon waxes (the amount of illuminated surface as seen from Earth increases), the lunar phases progress through the new moon, crescent moon, first-quarter moon, gibbous moon, and full moon phases. The Moon then wanes as it passes through the gibbous moon, third-quarter moon, and crescent moon phases, before returning back to new moon.
a decrescent (waning) moon (as viewed from the northern hemisphere) new moon [22] [23] U+1F311 (dec 127761) 🌑︎: fully dark [17] [24] [25] U+1F31A (dec 127770) 🌚︎: waxing crescent U+1F312 (dec 127762) 🌒︎: encrescent moon (northern hemisphere) first-quarter (waxing) moon U+1F313 (dec 127763) 🌓︎: one week into the month, half ...
"Crescent Moon" (The Avengers), an episode of the television series The Avengers; Crescent Moon Darnel, nicknamed Cress, a character in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer; The Crescent Moon, a 1913 collection of poetry by Rabindranath Tagore; The crescent moon featured in the logo for the English dub of Sailor Moon.
'Crescent Moon Spade'; also, traditional Chinese: 禪仗; simplified Chinese: 禅仗; pinyin: chánzhàng; Japanese: getsugasan; lit. 'Zen Staff'), also called a Shaolin spade, is a Chinese polearm consisting of a long pole with a flat spade-like blade on one end and a smaller crescent shaped blade on the other. Neither blade was designed to be ...