Talk:Wet moon

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The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 21:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support

The term "Wet moon" has been in longer use for this lunar phase phenomenon than "Cheshire moon", which is a relative - but noted - neologism.--み使い Mitsukai 20:53, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support sounds right. Gryffindor 18:21, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Earlier discussions

See Talk:Rising crescent moon. --Eric Forste 23:42, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Vfd

On 12 Jan 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cheshire moon for a record of the discussion. —Korath (Talk) 00:35, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

Problems with In folklore Section

I believe we need someone well-versed in astronomy as well as Hawaiian folklore and astrology to straighten out the In folklore section, which appears to me to be full of contradictions with the rest of the article and with itself.

As I understand it, the moon is said to be "Dry" when the crescent horns appear nearly vertical; i.e., the bowl of the moon is upright and it captures falling rain, preventing much of it from reaching the Earth. According to other sections of the article, this occurs during winter in the northern hemisphere. However, the folklore section says that Hawaiians call the moon the "Dripping wet moon" typically between January 20 - February 18, which is the height of winter. Something seems amiss!

Is this only a matter of my mistaken interpretation? (I.e., "Dripping wet" being in the literal sense of only just beginning to drip, as opposed to my interpretation of "Dripping wet" in the common idiomatic sense of being extremely wet, in other words pouring out rapidly and inundating the Earth below?)