phenomenon

New moon

Cosmos

The moon’s dark conjunction phase when the lit face turns away. Not full moon, and not absence as void.

Roman religion

  • New moon appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats the new moon among lunar phases. A named dark conjunction phase in that natural history, not full moon and not void.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    appears in · sourced · culturally specific

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