MOON Painting

The MOON.As a rule, represents the female force, the Mother Goddess, the Queen of Heaven. The exception are some African and North American Indian tribes, as well as the Teutons, the tribes of Oceania, Maori, and Japan, where the moon is the male productive principle. Everywhere the moon is a symbol of the cyclical rhythm of time, of a universal becoming. Phase of the birth, appearance and disappearance of the moon in the firmament symbolize immortality and eternity, constant renewal, enlightenment. In addition, the Moon represents the dark side of nature, its invisible aspect; the spiritual aspect of light in the darkness; inner knowing, intuitive, subjective and irrational; the human mind in the form of reflected light of the divine Sun. Is the symbol of the eye of the night, and the Sun is the eye day. The moon also symbolizes the periodic renewal of creation, time and measure. Before time was measured by the phases of the moon, so it was considered to be the carrier of change, suffering and decay, condition of human life on earth. Changing in its phases, represents the region of formation. Kama the moon controls the tides, the rains, the waters, floods, and seasons, and hence the course of life. All moon goddess, control the fate and weave her thread. Sometimes they are portrayed as spiders in the center of the web. Their attributes are the spindle and distaff. Together the Sun and the Moon epitomize the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage of Heaven and Earth, king and Queen, gold and silver etc. three days of the new moon period is the period of the descent of a dying God in the underworld, from which he, like the moon, rises again. The full Moon signifies the wholeness, completeness, strength, and spiritual power. The moon in the middle of the cycle has a funerary significance. Waning Moon becomes dark, demonic aspect; The moon of increasing light, growth and regeneration. The symbol of the moon, usually a month or cow horns. It is also called "the ship of light in a sea of night." All nocturnal animals, such as cat and Fox, are lunar, as the animals that appear and disappear, for example, a bear entering hibernation in the winter and emerging again in the spring with a newborn cub. These are the snake, the hare and the rabbit, all the lungfish and any other animals associated with water, swamps and floods. Frog and toad live on the moon. Almost everywhere, the inhabitants of the moon are the hare and the rabbit. Very often a toad or a hare with three legs representing three lunar phases, as well as past, present and future. On the moon lives a man who carries around the heavy burden of punishment. In Christianity it is compared to Cain or Judas Iscariot. The lame man can symbolize the waning moon. Lunar deities are often triple, for example, Parks (see number three). The Moon was associated with various plants, such as Indian catfish, American corn, South American, the Moon in the form of a male deity. Armor, sword, and especially the Crescent moon are symbols of the power of the gods of fertility in their aggressive fertilizing aspect. (The ancient bas-relief from Palmyra.) Palma pajiba. The Semitic moon gods were associated with trees and shrubs. In African mythology it is Aching that symbolize time and death. Some African tribes associate the moon with the tree. In some tribes the Moon is a male deity. In alchemy, the Moon, means silver is a pure feeling; the Sun and the Moon is the body and soul, silver and gold, a Queen and a king. In the beliefs of American Indians is "the old woman who never dies", and "water girl" with a jug of water. In South America the Moon is associated with palm and maize, and on the North with the tree. Full Moon like light of the Great spirit, however, in some tribes it is an evil and malevolent force. In astrology, the Moon means the animal soul as a place in which there is a feeling, sex life and momentum to it. Along with the Sun, reflecting the impulses of the heart and character traits, the Moon reflects the overall style of behavior. In Buddhism, the Moon represents peace, serenity and beauty. The full moon and the new moon is considered a time of increased spiritual strength. Waxing Moon — the element of Avalokiteshvara, Guan Yin and Guan-he, as well as a symbol of the unity of personality. "Appearing on the horizon, the Moon reflected in each surface, and these reflections come from a single source" (Yang Chia "Song of enlightenment"). The moon and water together represent the freedom of the Dharma. In China the Moon shows the essence of Yin, the female principle of nature, passivity and the transience of life and immortality. In Christianity, the Moon and the Sun often depicted in scenes of the crucifixion and symbolize the dual nature of Christ. The moon — the seat of the Archangel Gabriel, and the Sun — Archangel Michael. In Egyptian tradition the Moon is considered the "Creator of the underworld and eternity." The waxing Moon is the main attribute of ISIS as Queen of Heaven is also The lunar deity. Eskimos the Moon is esteemed as the "bite snow". In ancient Greece the Moon was associated with the tree. Goddess of the moon, Moira stood above other gods and three goddesses of fate (Moira) was a reflection of the strength of this great Moon Goddess. In the symbolism of the orphics, the Moon represents the liver, and the Sun — heart (the center of the universe in man). In Hinduism, the waxing Moon symbolizes the newborn quickly and vigorously growing child. It also represents the chalice of the elixir of immortality and is associated with the plant soma, from which is prepared the sacred drink. In Iran the Moon is revered as the Fluff along with the Sun, which is revered as Hvar-Khshaeta. In the tradition of the Zend and Pahlavi, the Moon represents the masculine principle. In Islam the Moon measure time and consider the years, as the lunar year is considered. Split the Moon reflects the duality in constant motion towards unity. The waxing Crescent Moon, symbolizing the divine and Supreme power, is a symbol of Islam. Growing or full moon illuminated the Tree of Life portrayed sometimes on Muslim tombstones. In Japan, the Moon also represents the masculine principle is God, Tsukiyomi, was born from the right eye of Izanagi. A rabbit with a pestle and mortar lives on the moon. The Manicheans Moon is Jesus Great in the series with the the Maori Moon — the husband of all wives, God the father. In Mithraism the icons of the Moon depicted on the left side on the chariot drawn by one horse, the Sun on the right side of the Quadriga. We the peoples of Oceania, the Moon represents the masculine principle and symbolizes eternal youth. The Scandinavians Freya lunar lunar chariot drawn by cats. In Sumero-Semitic tradition of the lunar deity Sin is the male God of wisdom and the Keeper of time. The night of the full moon is a time for prayer and festive sacrifices. At this time the Moon may be engraved on the back praying. In shamanism the Moon symbolizes magical powers. In Taoism the Moon is a symbol of truth, "the eye that shines in the darkness", the principle of Yin, but with the Sun, the male divine power. Among the Teutons the Moon reflects the male force of the divine feminine, the collective unconscious Due to its power over the oceans, the moon the Indians was considered a lady start feeding. Her gentle rays, coupled with the fresh night breezes and graced by the morning dew has contributed to the fact" that the inhabitants of hot countries believed the moon mediatress and ukrepitelnye of the earth. The light of the sun, moon and fire was seen as the one and only, derived from the Supreme being, endowed with power over the sun. About Egyptian priests chose the moon as a symbol of faith which reflects revealed truths as it illuminated by the Sun and draws from it all its vitality. The moon considered as a world Sea, containing the fecundating principles of the sun, which it sows in the air, it endowed the passive and active forces of reproduction, are identical in nature, though formally different. The rise of the moon, during the first fourteen days of every lunar month was associated with the growth of living beings, hence the custom to plant and cut trees during this period and harvest when the moon wanes. The impact the moon has on human actions and deeds, more than beneficial in the growth period of the moon than during its decrease. Dew is more abundant in the bright nights, and the farmers made a conclusion that humidity comes from the moon; so the moon was the embodiment of a principle of cold and moisture, creating rain. In hot and arid regions of the moon cult replaced the cult of the Sun: for example, in America, Egypt, an oasis in the desert is considered a blessing. Hence, there is also the dualism of the Moon-the Sun: moisture, given by the moon, opposed to the aridity of the sun. Because of its growth speed and the Moon is a symbol of fertility. Comparison of moist and fertile land with the mother's womb has been the cult of the Magna Mater (mother earth) in Egypt and Chaldea, which was reflected in arriving moon and principle of moisture. It is easy to understand the similarities that exist between the night luminary and goddesses of these countries, sources and symbols of life and hranitelyami vegetation, which, like the moon, are born and fade. Indeed, the lunar gods and goddesses is a whole Legion: the God of vegetation Sipe, father of the sun God Shamash; the Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs, the son of the Sun, which, having come nearer to that luminary, had sacrificed himself as the son of God, to save mankind; in India Chandra, appreciated, valued intoxication of the Soma and oblada-Phi 28 women, symbols of the phases of the moon each month, and the formidable Kali, hungry blood; the Egyptian ISIS, the embodiment of femininity in nature, with cow's horns (power and fertility) and disc between them; the Phoenician Astarte; the Babylonian Ishtar, etc., Or Greco-Latin goddess: Selena is the embodiment of polar opposites: day night, nature, the spirit, the will of the male-female passivity; Hera, a full moon, the symbol of motherhood and of women's dignity in marriage; Diana-Artemis, natural, unconscious desire of the soul, uncontrolled by reason, whose attribute is an ideogram in the shape of a sickle — moon of the month, has the virgin Mary of Christian painters. The Crescent appears on many monuments of culture, the Egyptian and Babylonian: the divine boat had the form of a lunar month (as in Noah's ark or ship of the Argonauts). The Church was compared to a Moon: she, like a mother watches over her children, stores, and transmits them to the light. Moon main characters: the hare or rabbit in a vessel filled with water (in pre-Columbian America, China, the Hindus, and so D.), turtle, snail, she retreated to long days in his house; frog, because there was a belief that she is falling with the dew; and it's accepted" loving the morning dew, as well as animals with horns: the bull, the cow, which was worshipped as a lunar deity. Sometimes the Moon is mentioned as a symbol of renewal because of its recurring appearance; independence and indirect knowledge, because it reflects the light coming from the sun. Its dim light is intermediate between sunlight and darkness, between consciousness, mind, and the night world of the unconscious. The moon is the embodiment of the anima, the feminine mate" administered early, passive, embodying the darkness of the unconscious, the errors committed before coming to the light of consciousness, whose epitome is the Sun. In character the Moon rules the lymphatic (phlegmatic) temperament and endodonticheskogo the Constitution was marked by the instinct of self-preservation, prudence, innate selfishness, love of quiet, simple life, rest. In astrology the moon is the symbol of the soul, and its position in the horoscope determines the type of reaction of the individual, their susceptibility and the ability to reflect and adapt to the demands of everyday life. A narrow sickle, a symbol, embodies the Old moon, released from the oppression of the sun to turn into a New moon, endowed with energy. Its phases correspond to the periods of development of the female body. New moon is a symbol of childhood; arriving the moon is a symbol of youth, adolescence, and undifferentiated generic receptivity, which attracts all to itself, infantile urges, attachment to mother, traditions; it corresponds to extra-vertimu type. The full moon corresponds to the maturity, pregnancy, maternity. Waning moon, the left hemisphere lit lights, symbolizes the end of life and embodies introvertnye type, prone to domestic life, sleeping, apprehension, imagination, the collective unconscious, where archetypes are pulsing humanity. This last phase left half of the lunar month the alchemists called the balsamic Moon, because at the end of the life cycle of the spiritual experience of man goes back, like a balm on the offerings, to the realm of the spirit. As for the black moon (the period of three or four days, when the moon is invisible), it is a symbol of the unattainable; likened to Lilith and Hecate, goddesses of the night, acting insidiously in the depths of the unconscious, she represents the powerful psychic forces that cannot be controlled by consciousness. In ancient times, the symbolic incarnation of lunar astrology was made by Osiris, who ruled for 28 years and whose body, torn into 14 pieces (the number of homes coming or waning moon), was dismembered by Typhon, in a full moon (the image of the moon, losing a part of herself in each of the 14 days, the second half of the lunar month). The moon is the basis of Oriental astrology, discerning the 28 lunar houses in China are named after siau (spend the night). Traversed by the moon during its 28 day cycle, they meet the old feudal States and were associated with animals.Hindu astrologers have correlated the lunar horoscope with the human body. They noticed that during fetal development, the individual develops around two power centers, or the chakras: Fed is the heart Lotus with 12 petals, transfer the microcosmic sun of the zodiac, and Ina — localization in human terms, of the zodiac of 28 mansions of the moon, or nakshtra. So Pingala and Ina, the center forces in the development of the human embryo, embody a microcosm. The moon (gr. — Selenium). The moon goddess, whom the Romans identified with DIANA. In art she is usually the attributes of Diana, particularly the Crescent moon over the eyebrow. In Renaissance art, her chariot driven by two girls or two horses — one black, the other white, which signify the night and the day. The moon. Crescent — nascent moon was an ancient attribute of the virgin DIANA and lunar goddess of the MOON, which in Roman times was worshipped as one and the same deity. It saved them a common attribute. Month under the feet of the VIRGIN MARY (1,4) symbolizes chastity. Cm.t.well. THE SUN; THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST (II). The symbolism of the moon is very bulky and complicated. The power of this satellite was noted by Cicero, when he argued that "every month the moon goes through the trajectory performed by the sun during the year... It largely contributes to the maturation of plants and growth of animals". This allows to explain the important role of the lunar goddesses such as Ishtar, Hathor, Anahit, Artemis. People from ancient times knew about the affair of the moon with tides, and more mysterious connection between the lunar cycle and the physiological cycle of the woman. The Krupp believes with Darwin that this dependence is due to the origin of life deep under the water and that the influence of the moon sets the rhythm of life over millions of years. As he notes, the Moon thus becomes the "Mistress of women." Another significant fact in "the psychology of the moon" are visible changes on the surface, the accompanying periodic phase. He believes that these phases — especially in their negative sense of partial and complete disappearance seem to have been the source that inspired myths about dismemberment (such as Agree, Pentheus, Orpheus, Actaeon and Osiris). The same can be said about the myths and legends of the "spinners" (35). Where the matriarchy came the Patriarchy, the female character was ascribed to the moon and masculine sun. Sacred marriage (hieros gamos), generally understood as the marriage of heaven and earth, can also be interpreted as the Union of sun and moon. It is generally accepted nowadays that the lunar rhythms were utilized before the solar rhythms as a measure of time. There is also the possibility of their identification with the resurrection — spring follows winter, flowers appear after frost. The sun rises again after the darkness of the night and, likewise, the Crescent moon grows from new moon. Eliade points to the connection between these cosmic events and the myth of the periodic creation and update of the universe (17). Regulating the function of the moon was seen also in the distribution of water and rainfall, therefore, has long acted as an intermediary between heaven and earth. The moon not only regulates and determines the earth's cycles, but also connects them through its own activity: it combines water and rain, the fertility of women and animals, fertility of plants. But above all, she is a creature that does not retain their identity, while undergoing "painful" transformations of its shape (ascending Crescent to full visible range and decreasing the latter). These phases, similar to the seasons and different ages of human life, determine the affinity of the moon with the biological order of things, as it is also the object of the law of change: growth (from youth to maturity) and decline (from maturity to old age).It explains the mythological belief that the phase of invisibility of the moon corresponds to human death and, in the end, the idea that the deceased goes to the moon (and returned with it in accordance with those traditions which accept reincarnation). "So Death, says Eliade, is not the termination, and a temporary change of life plan". For three nights the Moon disappears from the sky, but on the fourth day she is reborn. The idea of a journey to the moon after death is an idea that persists in more advanced cultures (in Greece, India and Erie). The Pythagorean idea announced a fresh impetus to astral theology. "The Isle of the blessed" and all mythological geography began to build on astronomical cards — the Sun, the Moon, the milky way. It is easy to detect in these later formulations of the traditional theme of the moon as the land of the dead or periodalso container of the shower. But the moonlit space was not more than one stage in the ascent; there were others: the Sun, the milky way, the "higher sphere". This is the reason that the Moon dominates over the formation of organisms, and on their decay (symbolized in green). Her destiny is to be melted forms and update them. Only what is on the other side of the moon or above it may exceed become, cash. As a result, according to Plutarch, the souls of the righteous are purified in the moon, whilst their bodies return to Earth, and the spirit is in the Sun. Lunar condition identical to the human condition. The mother of God is depicted above the Moon and this means that eternity is above variable and time (17). P. guénon claims that in "the sphere of the moon" forms dissected, so that a higher state is separated from the lower one, hence the dual role of the moon as Diana, and Hecate, heavenly and hellish. Diana, or Jana is a feminine form of Janus (26, 17). According to space order. The moon is considered as the DoppelgangeR of the Sun, but in a reduced form. Therefore, if the latter gives life to the whole planetary system, the Moon only affects our planet. Due to its passive nature — the fact that it receives its light from the Sun — the Moon is identified with the symbolism of the number two and with the passive or feminine principle. She is also associated with the world egg, the uterus and the box — the symbolic analogue of the grave (9). The metal corresponding to the moon — silver (57). It is regarded as a conductor on the occult side of nature — as opposed to the Sun, which is responsible for manifesting the life and world of fire activity. In alchemy the Moon represents non-permanent (or mutable) and the female, as well as the multiplicity, due to the fragmentary nature of its phases. These two ideas sometimes intermingled, giving rise to literal interpretations fall into the trap of superstition. Greenlanders, for example, believe that all the heavenly bodies were once people, but the moon, in particular, they are accused of encouraging their women to the orgies, and so they are not allowed to stare at her. In pre-Islamic Arabia, as in other Semitic countries, the worship of the moon prevailed over the cult of the Sun. Mohammed forbade the use of amulets in any metal except silver (39). Another significant aspect of the moon concerns its relationship with the night (maternal, enveloping, unconscious and contradictory, because she protects, and dangerous). Due to the pale its light, only palmasvideo items. The moon is associated with imagination and fantasy as an intermediate sphere between the denial of the spiritual life and the brightly burning sun of intuition. Schneider drew attention to a very interesting structural aspect in his observation regarding the fact that a progressive change in the shape of the moon from disk to a thin thread of light — appears to have given rise to the mystical theory of forms, which influenced, for example, the method of manufacturing of musical instruments (51). At the same time, a number of scientists (Stuchen, Hommel, Dornseif) in-depth study of the structure of the tools to prove the influence of the changing shapes of the moon to the Jewish and Arabic alphabets. Eliade refers to the review of Hintza that all dualisms find in the moon if not historical justification, at least a mythic and a symbolic model. "The hell — world of darkness — is represented by means of departing the month (the horn corresponds to one quarter of the moon; the sign of a double spiral — two quarters of the moon, facing in opposite directions; two quarters, superimposed one on the other opposite sides, the moon on the damage, which appears as a bony decrepit old man). The upper world — the world of life and being born of the Sun — symbolizes the tiger (the beast of darkness and the new moon with a human child emerging from his mouth)“ (17). Lunar animals are those in which the alternate appearance and disappearance, like amphibians; examples are: a snail, which leaves its shell and returns to it; or the bear, which disappears in winter and reappears in spring, etc. Lunar objects may be taken as objects of passive or reflective of nature, like a mirror; or those which change their appearance, like a fan. It is interesting to note that both types of objects in nature are female. In Tarot the Moon is the eighteenth Arcanum. The map depicts the moon, dimly illuminating the objects uncertain light. Under the Moon — a giant red crab, moving back in a puddle. The allegory also shows two watchdogs guarding the solar orbit and barking at the moon. Behind them — left and right — two locks in the form of rectangular towers of flesh-coloured, fringed with gold. The moon is depicted as a silver disk, preserving the feminine shape. From the drive onto the long yellow rays, mingling with other, shorter reddish rays. Shed drops of water floating in the air, as if attracted by the Moon. The scene represents the power and dangers of the world of ghosts and imagination. The transformative vision of the things is in the moonlight. Crab, like the Egyptian scarab, has the purpose to absorb that which alchemy defines as temporary and volatile element — and to contribute to moral and physical revival. Watchdogs are warning for the moon — to stay away from the area of influence of the Sun (logo); the tower, on the other hand, occur as a warning that the approach of the lunar subject is difficult very real dangers ("hazards of the soul" of the primitive man). According to the description of Wirth, with the towers is a steppe — forest ("forest" as understood in the legends and folklore), is full of ghosts. Behind him is a mountain ("two-headed mountain" Schneider) and the abyss, bordered by the stream of cleansing water. This, apparently, implies the path followed by the shamans in ecstatic wanderings. There is another ancient Tarot card, depicting a singing harpist a young girl, sending her hair in the moonlight. This is correlated with fatal properties of the moon, as the harpist is a widespread symbol of death (and the death thrust), and the girl — undoubtedly a symbol of the soul. This Tarot card as a result gives instructions regarding the "lunar way" (intuition, imagination, and magic) as distinct from "Sunny" (of reason, reflection, objectivity), but at the same time it is hidden and fatal negative value. In a negative sense, it is related to error, arbitrary fantasy, false impression, etc. (39). The moon in the starry sky It exceeds one thousand's Moon daeg more light than all the stars, therefore, brings more benefit Approval or in shania a decent, outstanding and sublime man is preferable to the noisy praise of the crowd. (See Fig. 2 in table. 6.) [EMSI 47-2,p. 305] the Moon amidst the stars a moon brighter than thousand stars. simwatachela person, for example. the sovereign or commander-in-chief. [EMSI; PL.6-2,p. 129] Full the moon and the sea. A symbol of greater power over the sea and the moon than for Earth. [EMSI; PL.12-13, p. 154] She gives what she receives. the symbol means that we have priming for the good of mankind the gifts that graciously gave naroda. The moon, getting all the light from the Sun, reflects it back to us. [EMSI 23-2,p. 199]Waning moon I'll be back full. the symbol of the vicissitudes and changes of life. There are times when luck is on the wane, but we must not despair, because, like the moon, by the grace of God, whom we pray for help and protection, she soon will once again be full. Fortune temporarily turned away, And the light will Shine again. The more the moon ubivaet, The closer it is to the full moon. [EMSI 27-5,p. 216] the Moon, to the sun priblizhayuscheysya I change all the time. the symbol of the changeability or impermanence. How changing the light emitted from the moon — He is weak, then strong. Because of the lunar face that is reduced to a sickle, It increases to the ball. [EMSI 28-10,p. 220] Eclipse of the moon. Virtue always remains itself, even if it is eclipsed or hidden behind clouds. It definitely will Shine again in its inherent greatness. Proverb. The moon is shining or East, it is still the moon. [EMSI 29-5,p. 224] the moon and the stars. singleuserts weak and imperfect image of the divine Glory, and, however, is also powerful and full of vigor the image of the divine Wisdom, concerned to create the conditions for a happy human existence. [EMSI 31-13,p. 234] the Moon is Hidden, but not lost to the world "People-oriented compared Christ to the sun, and the Church with the moon, because the Church assumes all the splendour and beauty of Christ. Sometimes the moon acts as a symbol of eternity, because it is constantly updated.“ The sun — the reliability and consistency in judgements. The moon — the impermanence and ease as a consequence of variability. "A wise man is constant, QC sun, but a fool is changing like the moon" Eccl, 27. Waxing moon means the nobility and a quick profit. [EMSI 42-9,p. 366] in the symbolism along with the Sun the most important celestial bodies; for the most part interpreted as "female", primarily because of its (in the sense of the ancient Chinese "Yin") the value of a celestial body, passively receiving the light, and due to the coincidence of the lunar month women's monthly. The appearance and disappearance of the moon, as well as permanent periodic appearance its new image is a strong symbol of "dying and birth." The moon rarely see masculine, as is the usage in German (der Mond), more often it is interpreted as the beginning of the female (lat. Moon, the Greek. Selene or Artemis, the East Asian Kuan-Yin, Kannon: Maya IXCHEL). In alchemical shaped the world, the Moon represents silver, both "the Queen" ("Queen"), which marries the "king" ("king") and becomes androgenism. An old folk belief testifies to the influence on earth processes from the lunar phases, which cause not only the ebb and flow of the tides, but also the rise and fall of the juice stream in plants; when cutting and bloodletting were guided by moon phases. Lunar herbs (plants that bloom at night) were prescribed in women health. In Christian iconography the virgin Mary and the virgin is often compared with the Moon or depicted standing or seated on the moon sickle. In the Austrian region of this plot willingly associate with the victory over the Turks (whose camp sign was the Crescent moon), but most of it goes back to the book of Revelation (12:1:"...a woman clothed with the sun; under legs its moon" — a symbol of victory over hostile forces). Often also referred to as a lunar symbol of the double axe with two Crescent-shaped curved blades, and because its attribute as a weapon of legendary female armies of antiquity, the Amazons, and the Crescent bow. And the goddess of darkness Hecate Triaditis (three-faced) is associated with conspicuous phases of the moon (young Moon, or new moon, full moon, dark Moon, or the Moon on the wane) and the three life phases of women (virginity, motherhood, old age), just as in contemporary women's literature much attention is paid to "moonlight party" (see the Dualistic system, Top/bottom, the Spindle). In legends of the Jews (E. bin Gorion) contains an impressive symbolic myth, which is based on a dualistic system Sun/Moon and intended to explain the fact that the Moon as one of two "light" emits weaker light. The Creator explains the moon, that there are two spheres, unreal world and the hereafter, and the existence of the two light sources to highlight this polarity. The moon. since she's confined to a large area of the underworld, is unhappy that she is not superior to the Sun with its brilliance. "Then the Lord said to Me clearly — you think, I will make you great and the Sun will reduce. But relative to the Sun you had bad intent, you must become smaller than it is, and your light will be in sixty times weaker than him. Then said the Moon to the Lord, O Ruler of the world! It was only one single word I said, and I should be punished so hard? Then the Lord said: someday (probably after judgment day) you will be again big as the Sun, and the light of the moon will be the same as the light of the Sun". However, foreshadowing the last judgment (see The end of the world) involves the darkening of the moon (Joel 3:15). The fact that the Moon was associated not only with the beyond-night part of the world, but no less often (in Israel) and with femininity, derived from the temporal coincidence of the menstrual cycle with the lunar periodicity and its relation to the conceptual field of "fertility". Women and domestic animals (Camels) worn around the neck as an ornament small moon. The Greek apologist Theophilus of Antioch (2nd century) is also considered Sun and moon as symbols of the dualistic, "media and images of the great mystery. Namely: the Sun is the image of God, the Moon — the image of man" (which gets the Sun light). In a similar symbolic sense, Origen (185-254) interpreted the host light the moon as the image of the Church, which then peredayot all believers. Naturally symbolic identification constantly again witness the "rebirth" of the moon with the Sunday. In Ancient Peru the worship of the moon was subject to the prevailing worship of the Sun. Inca Garcilaso de La VEGA (1539-1616) calls the moon "the wife of the Sun" and writes that the temple site was covered with silver plates, "so that white knew that the chambers of the moon. Like near the Sun, there was a portrait depicting a female face on the big ingot of silver. In these quarters came to visit the moon and to entrust yourself to her protection, for she is regarded as the sister and wife of the Sun and mother of the Incas and all their sort; and therefore they called her Mamaquilla, which means "mother Moon". She did not sacrifice, as the Sun. On both sides of the images of the moon were the figures of deaths of Queens, located in accordance with the succession and age..." In astrology, this satellite still. as in the geocentric system of antiquity, is considered to be a "planet", namely with the Sun in one of two "main light". It is closest to Earth celestial body and the Earth always shows the same "face" that gave rise to many legends. Because of the change of their phases in astrology it is also considered to be "non-permanent, fleeting action", but "the benefactor", as the "female planet" has an impact on nature, the feminine gender. mothers and folk dances. your exaltation she is in the zodiac sign Taurus (due to the fact that the bull's horns resemble the horns of the Crescent moon, or mythical ties between the lunar goddess and the male partner in the form of a bull^). More new astrology attributes to the moon the ability to manage the woman appearance. the man had a deep personality (anima). In antiquity talked about luna mendax, deceitful moon, in particular, because the phase shift shows a similarity with the letter C (crescere, grow) and D (decrescere, to decrease), which, however, is the opposite, as there is a change of appearance in accordance with the shape of a sickle. On the basis of symbolic subordination as "moon rocks" describes pearls, opal, Selenite and pearl jewelry, as an appropriate metal — silver. The Moon can be traced for the most part depicted as the Crescent moon, mostly in profile, looking left, Lunar sickles represented in the national emblems of many Islamic countries. Heraldic lunar images Bekler (1688) was explained by stating that one hundred members of the Council of Romulus wore on their shoes in Crescent moon shape With "to make it clear that they are everything under the Moon, tramping under the foot as transitory and vain, or even that they must as Board members be distinguished from others. Those noble persons. what is introduced in its coat of arms the moon, which means elevation, probably withdrew it before the era of Turks".Since the moon was considered "the sun that shines at night", the representation of the movement of the sun was postponed also at moon was shining. For example, the moon can be a revered baboons, and at night she is accompanied by jackals. Usually the moon is portrayed as a disc, which stands on a sickle. The God of the moon Khonsu is wearing as a head adornment and a disc of chamois moon. The hammer can be symbolically cutting weapon in the hand of the moon God Thoth, or bone, which has become the relics of Osiris. Phases of the moon are a symbol of life and death, and point to the dying and rebirth of Osiris. Fourteen parts, which were torn body of Osiris, correspond to the fourteen days of the waning moon. In mythology plays a role in the comparison of the moon with the damaged eye of Horus. Along with the ancient gods of the moon Joham (on the few paintings reproduced in the form of a man in the Royal apron and with a lunar disk on his head), Thoth, Khonsu and Osiris in the Hellenistic period stands female deity ISIS (in the Greek interpretation — Selenium). The ILLUSTRATIONS of Mithras the Altar, with the Crescent moon. Roman era. Bonn the Moon as a vessel with hare in the middle. Ancient Mexico. The Codex Borgia Slavs MOON, the month — heavenly body firmly associated in popular imagination with the underworld, the realm of death and is opposed to the sun as a deity of daylight, warmth and life. According to Bulgarian beliefs, and L. sun are moving in different directions: L — right-to-left, meaning "against the sun", draw a circle in black magic. In folklore, however, these two stars linked by filiation (that is siblings, brother and sister, husband and wife); their cults have many common motifs and ritual forms (at the sight as the rising sun, and the emerging months it was decided to remove the cap, be baptized, and to pray; L. Eclipse, as an Eclipse of the sun, explained by devouring the luminaries wolf, a dog, a devil or a mythical beast, etc.). Moonlight was considered all Slavs are dangerous and harmful, especially for pregnant women and newborns, hence the bans go out and to bear a child out of the house at night when you Shine L, and even putting it in the house so that it fell moonlight. The poles believed that if L. "go" over the sleeping child, the child is ill; in this case the child was saved by the fact that put a window vessel with water, in which L. had "drowned". Belarusians have some childhood diseases was due to the fact that "the month was shining child"; they were treated as follows: take outrigger for clothes, swaddled him in a baby diaper for the whole night is thrown on the ground, it shined a month, then the child will be fine. Serbs and Macedonians believed that L. "drinking" the life of man. The Slavs, like many other Nations, it is known the belief that the dead souls go for a month. The Serbs on the month was out, alive or killed someone close who went off to war or away from home. For this purpose it was necessary to take a human skull, three times dip it in water and at midnight during the full moon to look at through it for a month. So wondered wives about their husbands; it was believed that if the husband lives, the wife will find him before you, if he died, she will see it on the month. In other images, while belonia, that is, during the change of month, month lights afterlife. The motive of the month visit the "world" reflected in widespread conspiracies from a toothache, pronounced "new moon". In Belarus the prayers read at the sight of the young month, was devoted souls who "did not wait for the new month", i.e., recently deceased. The Catholics of Bosnia in this case, read "our father" and "mother of God" for the salvation of the souls of those who fell into hell and who has nobody to pray for them. Lunar light attracts mermaids. They seem to bathe in it, swinging on the branches and combing the hair. Serbs believe that in the light L. the water went the souls of the drowned and sit on the willows. If you say that when L. bright as day, then they suffer, break out curses and slides into the water. Among the southern Slavs a widespread belief that the witch can his sorcery to reset the month on the ground. Macedonians call them "masakaki" and believe that they have a tail and that with their magic they can to exhaust and destroy the person. They take milk from cows and make it through the month. "Mesearch" after a complex magical manipulation refers to the month with the words: "I am a calf, you're a cow." Then a month down from the sky and turns into a cow. The sorceress touches it and becomes invisible. Then she says, "I'm a woman and you're mesecina, I'm downstairs and you're upstairs". Then the month will cry out and begin to climb to the sky, and the witch goes there, where she wanted to take away the milk. The "dumping months" is considered the most deadly sin. Eclipse L. southern Slavs explained by the fact that L. eat challah. People very sorry a month and I'm afraid that someday Hallam will be able to eat the whole thing. Then there is only darkness and the end of the world, because the sun, brother of the month, out of pity, too, no longer Shine. During the Eclipse, try not to talk, not laugh, and the old men and women cry. People try to defend L. shooting and noise. All the Slavs in the past, and in many regions and until recently, were preserved lunar time — the traditional system of time accounts for the phases L, although the same phase can be assessed as favorable, as unfavorable or dangerous to an enterprise. A young, growing month is usually interpreted as favourable for beginning any work, especially for growth, just for growing, developing. With the full moon is related of a good time for agricultural work, for the fulness of the month promises a rich harvest. Belonia preceding the birth of the new month, is widely regarded as extremely unfavorable and dangerous as any spatial or temporal boundary (threshold, boundary; midnight, midday, etc.). Man or beast, conceived on such days, according to the beliefs of the Bulgarians, will live, will die sooner. All Slavs are aware of the belief that a child born in "bad" days, "at the limits", "change", will remain barren, childless. In Polesie reluctant to start any case in a "blank" days: do not sow and do not put, don't drive on the copulation of cattle, do not buy the cattle, harvested the crops, not sent on a long journey. All these views about the risk of belonia associated with the beliefs according to which month at this time, lights other world — the world of the dead. S. M. Thick < SMES Цветут каштаны белыми свечами, Акаций кисти клонятся к земле, Весна наполнит душу мне мечтами И опьяняет сердце запахом любви. О как безумно ожиданье, Как краток белый цвет весны. Рожденье, рост и увяданье, Бегущих вод наполненной реки. Глаза, слова и жесты, Бокал, наполненный вином, Я пью, не думая о власти время, Палач, что поглощает все кругом. И нет спасения от бега, Тобой начертанной судьбы, Лишь в сердце остается нега, Акаций белых, пьяные цветы. pollin 2012