On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 09:47, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
Also, he describes a moon that is "a mostly full moon" as "crescent", but if I got it right, that should be "gibbous". I guess that's one of those small mistakes, because Maltz of course, is not an astronomer. ;-)
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:
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.
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". -- De'vID