the moon
object · 8 works · 9 mentions · 13 anchored passages
moon · Amā · al-qamar · aqmār · ball of moon · journeying moon · moon is seen · she · اقمار · القمر
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The moon, treated as a physical object whose phases, periodic disappearance, and eclipses are given several rival naturalistic explanations, including reflected light, self-luminescence, an occluding companion body, rotation, and periodic re-creation.
Created be with fixed successions there
The moon she possibly doth shine because
At fixed time destroyed, since things so many
Clouds
The celestial body Strepsiades schemes to capture, hide away, and prevent from rising, so that no month (and thus no interest) would pass.
If the moon were to rise no longer anywhere, I should not pay the interest.
If I were to purchase a Thessalian witch, and draw down the moon by night, and then shut it up, as if it were a mirror, in a round crest-case, and then carefully keep it—
Strepsiades.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The moon, described as moving within the waters in the closing cosmological verse.
The moon runs within the waters;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The moon, whose prolonged contemplation produces the illusion of multiple moons in the common sense.
And this condition has befallen those who gaze long and intently (1) at the moon, so that they behold many moons;
On the Nature of the Gods
The moon, treated by the Greeks as the goddess Diana, used as a premise in Cotta's astral reductio
But if the moon is a goddess, then Lucifer too and the rest of the wanderers will hold the number of the gods;
Consolation to Marcia
The moon, described in Nature's cosmic speech as changeable in its phases, borrowing light from the sun.
You will see the moon's nightly succession, borrowing from her meetings with her brother a soft and gentle light, now hidden, now with full face overhanging the earth, changeable in her gains and losses, never like the one just past.
On Benefits
Celestial body paired with the sun as an example of a necessitated but still providential benefactor.
nor does anyone judge that he owes a benefit to the Nile, any more than hatred, if it has overflowed too much and withdrawn slowly;
Vīramitrodaya
The visible new or full moon, whose sighting or non-sighting is a disputed criterion for determining correct sacrifice timing.
Because only the rising (*abhyudaya* (अभ्युदय)) is heard, and since that is possible on Pratipad (*Pratipad* (प्रतिपद्)) also, this does not mean that the sacrifice (*yāga* (याग)) should be performed on the day the moon is seen.
> Before Amāvāsyā (*Amāvāsyāyāṃ* (अमावस्यायां)), when the moon rises, he sacrifices.
> This is indeed the *iṣṭi* (इष्टि) of the good-minded, for him who sacrifices and whom the moon rises upon afterwards;