<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 09:47, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Also, he describes a moon that is "a mostly full moon" as "crescent",<br>
but if I got it right, that should be "gibbous". I guess that's one of<br>
those small mistakes, because Maltz of course, is not an astronomer. ;-)<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Correct, this refers to a gibbous moon. But I don't think he got "crescent" and "gibbous" mixed up. He was talking about two different things in that paragraph:</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Another way of referring to a “crescent moon” is {maS loQHa’ So’lu’bogh} “moon that is considerably/appreciably hidden.” And {maS loQ So’lu’bogh} “moon that is slightly hidden” refers to a mostly full moon.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>He wrote "another way" of referring to a "crescent moon". This means that {maS loQHa’ So’lu’bogh} is a synonym for {maS’e’ loQ So’be’bogh QIb}. A "moon that is considerably/appreciably hidden" is the same as a “moon that a shadow doesn’t slightly hide".</div><div> </div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>