Moon phases
Jonathan Holmes
okibjonathan at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 8 01:49:01 UTC 2006
Can anyone translate for me the Lakota names for the moon's phases?
Euro-Americans see the moon - and identify the phases as:
New Moon
Waxing Crescent
Half Moon
Waxing Gibbous
Full moon
Waning Gibbous (the other half)
Half moon (the other half)
Waning crescent (The other half)
As I understand it,
"waxing" means growing or approaching full moon,
"waning" means shrinking or receding from full moon,
and "gibbous" means full bodied or bulging half moon.
At some point, I was listening to some Lakota elders discuss this.....but all I caught was Islayata hanhepi wi (or "right sided moon").
Presuming that Lakota culture may not have a use for all the "phases" that I have described above.....what would be the traditional way to describe the moon phases in Lakota language?
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