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This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire which is one of the sources for modern Wicca .. Confusingly, an Italian version of the Key of Solomon has a hook-shaped knife called an artauo ( a possible root for athame ) and a straight, needle-shaped blade called a bolino.
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For example, a solid cube is convex, but anything that is hollow or has a dent in it, for example, a crescent shape, is not convex.
The region was so named because of its rich soil and crescent shape.
He viewed the crescent shape of a partially eclipsed sun projected on the ground through the holes in a sieve and through the gaps between the leaves of a plane tree.
The city's unique shape, curved around its harbor, gives it the appearance of a crescent moon.
This choice of completion for the triad should have proved popular, but because the isheru, the sacred lake outside Mut's ancient temple in Karnak at Thebes, was the shape of a crescent moon, Khonsu, the moon god eventually replaced Menthu as Mut's adopted son.
Khonsu gradually replaced the war-god Monthu as the son of Mut in Theban thought during the Middle Kingdom, because the pool at the temple of Mut was in the shape of a crescent moon.
It was required to have a white triangle upon its forehead, a white vulture wing outline on its back, a scarab mark under its tongue, a white crescent moon shape on its right flank, and double hairs on its tail.
From the Key of Solomon: the Artano and Bolino are top left of the image. Many of the bolines advertised in on-line ' magick shops ' have a characteristic crescent shape, and are described as being for harvesting herbs.
After the pairing with Thoth the emblem of Seshat was shown surmounted by a crescent moon, which, over time, degenerated into being shown as two horns arranged to form a crescent shape, but pointing downward ( in an atypical fashion for Egyptian art ).
Pleased with his resilience and devotion, Shiva gave to him the divine sword Chandrahas ( Chandra-Moon, Has-laugh, literally ' the laughter of the moon ' but referring to the shape formed by a crescent moon which resembles a smile ).
She has a lunar crescent at her feet, " a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place " similar to the crown of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, but with the horns having a shape more like half-crescents, and a large cross on her breast.
Nazlini () " Flows in crescent shape " is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Apache County, Arizona, United States.
The town is named for the crescent shape of the land between the Hudson River and Mohawk River.
The emission from Hyakutake was brightest in a crescent shape surrounding the nucleus with the ends of the crescent pointing away from the Sun.
The crescent shape symbolises the new municipality, and the star represents longevity.
They wanted a more romantic sounding name for the town to attract settlers and came up with " La Crescent ", after the bend or " crescent " shape of the Mississippi River around the town.
An astronomically correct crescent shape ( in blue ), complemented by a gibbous shape.
In art and symbolism, a crescent () is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points ( usually in such a manner that the enclosed shape does not include the center of the original circle ).
In astronomy, a crescent is the shape of the lit side of a spherical body ( most notably the Moon ) that appears to be less than half illuminated by the Sun as seen by the viewer.
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The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.
If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.
It is, however, apparent that by the time of the Romans, coins featuring a star or crescent in some combination were not at all rare.
During the time of the Ottomans the crescent began to be associated with Islam and this is reflected on the flags of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan and of Tunisia.
The earliest clear written record of iron horseshoes is a reference to " crescent figured irons and their nails " in AD 910.
Although originally the new lunar crescent had to be observed and certified by witnesses, the moment of the new moon is now approximated arithmetically.
This supreme abode is above a crescent like boundary.
The crescent kick, also referred to as a ' swing ' kick, has some similarities to a hook kick, and is sometimes practised as an off-target front snap kick.
When training for crescent kicks, it is common to keep the knee extended to increase the difficulty.
Chios island is approximately crescent or kidney shaped, long from north to south, at its widest, and covers an area of.
After that is complete, the maker will use a crescent shaped knife, called lunarium or lunellum, to clean any surviving hairs.
* See when the next new crescent moon is visible for any location.
One can see, for example, that the full moon will always rise at sunset and that the waning crescent moon is high overhead around 9: 00 am local time.
A last quarter crescent moon above Earth's horizon is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 24 crew member.
* The Islamic calendar has retained an observational definition of the new moon, marking the new month when the first crescent moon is actually seen, and making it impossible to be certain in advance of when a specific month will begin ( in particular, the exact date on which Ramadan will begin is not known in advance ).
Hilāl ( the crescent ) is typically a day ( or more ) after the astronomical new moon.
This first day of the following month is declared after another crescent new moon has been sighted or the completion of 30 days of fasting if no visual sighting is possible due to weather conditions.
" The crescent moon pendant is arguably the most iconic of all Nicks's jewelry – the original was bought while she was in England on tour with Fleetwood Mac during the Tusk era.
* Mukhali is back in Genghis Khan's camp in Mongolia and receives the hereditary title of prince, a golden seal, and a white standard with 9 tails and a black crescent in the middle.
In the United States and Canada, the adjustable spanner ( adjustable wrench ) is colloquially referred to as a " crescent wrench " due to the widespread Crescent brand of adjustable wrenches.
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This can be described as: Quarterly with a crescent for difference on the fess point: 1 and 4, Argent, a fesse between six annulets gules ; 2 and 3, Gules, on a bend argent, seven billets one two one two and one palewise of the bend sable, a quartering of the Lucas and Morieux families ' coats of arms.
The flag itself would take have taken the colors of the flag of the Federation of Arab Republics, in existence from 1972 to 1977, but the falcon present at the center of that flag would have been replaced with the Tunisian star and red crescent, as the union agreement described it: " Flag: the star and Tunisian crescent in the white middle, then the red and black.
The god is usually shown with a crescent like open horns on his shoulders, and he is described as the god presiding over the months.
In 1936, prior to the population shift of the Second Great Migration ( African American ) from the 1940s to the 1960s, the sociologist Arthur Raper described the Black Belt as some 200 plantation counties with black population portions over 50 %, lying " in a crescent from Virginia to Texas ".
Travellers have described it as one of the wildest ravines of the fertile crescent, and peculiarly fitted to afford a secure asylum to the persecuted.
In heraldic language, the coat of arms may be described as Argent, a lion passant above a cross crosslet fitchy gules ; in a chief gules a crescent silver.
At three stories high, it was described in 1928 as " the highest building for squares around ", with the result that " from the cupola on the roof one may look out over the Vieux Carré and see the Mississippi in its crescent before Jackson Square ".
It is composed from bottom to top of a cube, a sphere, a triangle, a crescent and something resembling a lotus flower, shapes that also have the meaning described above.
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