MAKE A MEME View Large Image Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol.png Triple Goddess Symbol composed of waxing crescent full moon and waning crescent outlined version Sometimes the crescents are tilted up a little to simulate the appearance of a young waxing moon ...
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Keywords: Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol.png Triple Goddess Symbol composed of waxing crescent full moon and waning crescent outlined version Sometimes the crescents are tilted up a little to simulate the appearance of a young waxing moon above the horizon after just after sunset and of an old waning moon above the horizon just before sunrise The symbol is sometimes combined with a pentagram to express a more general Neopaganism See also Image Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol-filled png for a monochromatic solid version or Image Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol-multicolored png for a version using symbolic colors See Image Three-Crescents-Diane-Poitiers png for a different crescent symbol The crescents consist of a 120° arc inscribed within a 180° arc i e what is left over when a Vesica piscis figure is inscribed within a circle This shape is an approximation to the astronomically-correct crescent shown in blue in diagram Image Gibbous-Crescent-half-ellipse-in-circle png i e the average appearance of the illuminated area of the moon at the mid-point of the first third or the last third of a lunar month measured from New Moon to New Moon but is more aesthetic when used as a symbol Of course individual artistic renderings of the Triple Goddess symbol will very frequently not strictly follow these exact proportions but the crescent shape shown here is more or less the canonical form own - Generated by means of the following PostScript code <pre> 6 setlinewidth 6 240 translate 300 156 144 0 360 arc stroke 12 156 144 -90 90 arc -71 138439 156 166 276878 60 -60 arcn closepath stroke 588 156 144 90 -90 arc 671 138439 156 166 276878 -120 120 arcn closepath stroke showpage EOF</pre> 2005 AnonMoos For versions of the symbol based on moon photographs see Image Wiccan Triple Moon png Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol svg Crescent moon symbols Goddess movement - Thealogy symbols Wiccan symbols Images with PostScript source code
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