Luminary (astrology)
The luminaries were what traditional astrologers called the two astrological "planets" which were the brightest and most important objects in the heavens, that is, the Sun and the Moon.
Quotes about
[edit]Bible
[edit]- The sun shall be turned into darkness,
- And the moon into blood,
- Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
- Book of Joel 2:31 NKJV.
- Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
- And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
- As the light of seven days,
- In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
- And heals the stroke of their wound.
- Book of Isaiah 30:26 NKJV.
Apocrypha
[edit]- Mary saith: Thou art the image of Adam: was not he first formed and then Eve? Look upon the sun, that according to the likeness of Adam it is bright. and upon the moon, that because of the transgression of Eve it is full of clay. For God did place Adam in the east and Eve in the west, and appointed the lights that the sun should shine on the earth unto Adam in the east in his fiery chariots, and the moon in the west should give light unto Eve with a countenance like milk. And she defiled the commandment of the Lord. Therefore was the moon stained with clay (Lat. 2, is cloudy) and her light is not bright. Thou therefore, since thou art the likeness of Adam, oughtest to ask him: but in me was he contained that I might recover the strength of the female.
- Mary, mother of Jesus in Gospel of Bartholomew IV, 5.
Others
[edit]- The Sun gives us the meaning of life; the Moon, of its precariousness.
- Roberto Gervaso, Aforismi, TEN, Roma, 1994, p. 67 (in Italian). ISBN 88-7983-458-4.
*The man is like the sun, the woman like the moon. :*Martin Luther, Breviario, Claudio Pozzoli (editor), translation into Italian by Carla Buttazzi, Rusconi, Milano, 1996, p. 120. ISBN 88-18-36106-6
- The moon is Catholic, the sun is Muslim.
- Gesualdo Bufalino, Bluff di parole, Giunti, 2013 (1994), p. 11 (in Italian). ISBN 8858761669
- A man on the moon will never be as interesting as a woman in the sun.
- Leopold Fechtner, quote n°. 68 from Anche le formiche nel loro piccolo s'incazzano, full edition 2004.
- The sun sends its light to the moon.
- Anaxagoras, Sulla natura (fragment 18), in Hermann Diels, Walther Kranz, I presocratici. Testimonianze e frammenti, Angelo Pasquinelli (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1976 (in Italian).
- We challenged each other to see who could count the stars, which we called the angels' lamps. The moon belonged to Our Lady and the sun belonged to the Lord. That is why Jacinta sometimes said:
– I like Our Lady's lamp better because it does not burn us or blind us, whereas the Lord's lamp does.
- Lúcia dos Santos, Memorie di Suor Lucia, vol. I, Fr. Luigi Kondor (editor), Secretariado dos Pastorinhos, Fátima, 2005, p. 40 (in Italian). ISBN 978-972-8524-31-9.
