(October 7, 2013 at 4:27 pm)Monolens Wrote: In Islamic traditions wolves are associated with new moon. Search google for this words and you will see that: wolf crescent moon
Sorry, I've seen this crop up a few times in this thread and I can't sit still another second.
Even if - and it's a humungous 'if' - we were to grant anything you said as correct, there is simply no way a New Moon can be a crescent Moon for the simple reason that the New Moon is invisible to the eye (barring Earthshine). If you can see a crescent Moon in the sky, it's already at least a day old. I don't care if you're talking poetry, mysticism or Double Dutch; once you start invoking astronomy or any other science, at least get your facts right.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
