To return to the Decan of Luna.

    As seen in the Cancer, Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo Introduction - Subject: Moon.

• Sumerian itud, itid, itu, iti, id₈; it₄, id₄: moon; month; moonlight (te, 'to approach, meet', + ud, 'sun').

• Hebrew chodesh, kho'-desh, from Heb. chadash, khaw-dash', a primary root, to be new; to rebuild, renew, repair, thus the new moon, by implication a month, new moon.
• Hebrew yareach, yaw-ray'-akh, from the same as Heb. yerach, yeh'-rakh, from an unused root of uncertain significance; a lunation, i.e. month, moon, thus the moon.
• Hebrew lebanah, leb-aw-naw', from Heb. laban, law-ban', primary root, to be (or become) white; also (as denom. from Heb. lebenah, leb-ay-naw', a brick (from the whiteness of the clay), (altar of) brick, tile) thus to make bricks: make brick, be (made, make) white; thus properly (the) white, i.e. the moon).

    The following has an opposing connection with the First/Seventh month of Aries/Libra on Jericho, "city of the moon."
    The other New Year festival of the city of the moon, is a celebration of the triumph of Nanna, the moon over the sun, Utu.    See early notes about the Feast of Trumpets or New Moon.

    Jericho (jer'-ik-o).

• Hebrew Yeriychow, yer-ee-kho', or Yerechow, yer-ay-kho', or variation in 1 Kings 16:34 Yeriychoh, yer-ee-kho', perhaps from Heb. yareach, yaw-ray'-akh, from the same as Heb. yerach, yeh'-rakh, from an unused root of uncertain significance, a lunation, i.e. month, moon, thus the moon, thus its month, or else from Heb. ruwach, roo'-akh, a primary root properly to blow, i.e. breathe; only (lit.) to smell, thus fragrant, Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine, also by extension a region of the sky.
  • Other sources claim Heb. yereho, yeriho, Gr. Iericho, moon city.

    This is the Moon New Year verses the Sun New Year.

    Utu, the sun, New Year festivals. Autumnal Equinox.

• Sumerian utu: (cf., ud).
  • Sumerian ud, u₄: n., sun; light; day; time; weather; storm (demon). prep., when; since.
    • Sumerian u₄: (cf., ud).
      • Sumerian a-u₄-te-na: at the cool of the day ('when' + 'day' + ten, 'coolness').
  • Sumerian útu: a dish prepared with milk.
  • Sumerian ud₅: (cf., ùz).

    The Phases of the Moon: Moon, Month.

New Moon:

• Hebrew chodesh, kho'-desh, from Heb. chadash, khaw-dash', a primary root, to be new; to rebuild, renew, repair, thus the new moon, by implication a month, new moon.
  • Hebrew chadrak, khad-rawk', of uncertain der., Chadrak, a Syrian deity, Hadrach.
    • This could be star name Hadar mentioned under Centaurus.
    • It also could be Hadad or Adad, seen as Hebrew 'adad, ad-ad', properly an orth. variation for Heb. Chadad, Adad, (or Hadad).
• Sumerian é-u₄-sar: new moon ('house' + 'to begin').

• Hebrew yareach, yaw-ray'-akh, from the same as Heb. yerach, yeh'-rakh, from an unused root of uncertain significance; a lunation, i.e. month, moon, thus the moon.
• Hebrew lebanah, leb-aw-naw', from Heb. laban, law-ban', primary root, to be (or become) white; also (as denom. from Heb. lebenah, leb-ay-naw', a brick (from the whiteness of the clay), (altar of) brick, tile) thus to make bricks: make brick, be (made, make) white; thus properly (the) white, i.e. the moon).
• Sumerian é-u₄-7: first crescent moon ('house' + 'day 7').

• Hebrew kece', keh'-seh, or keceh, apparently from Heb. kacah, kaw-saw', prim. root to plump, fill up hollows, to cover, thus properly fullness or the full moon, i.e. its festival, (time) appointed.
• Sumerian é-u₄-15: full moon ('house' + 'day 15').

• The Civil year began, agricultural in the Fall (Sept.-Oct.) the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah - Heb. ro's, hassana; ro's, head, beginning + ha, the + sana, year) or New Moon (See more on this at the end of this introduction).
• Canaanite derivation "begin" civil year, "dedicate" to the sun-god by the Babylonians, that which the Jews associated with the Creation and the Day of Judgment, who also began their feast on the first new moon of the year, and had some connection to the Moon-goddess at one time in their history.    See notes at the end of this section about "city of the moon."
  • Sumerian a...ru: to dedicate; to give as a votive gift (with dative) ('water' + 'to send').
    • Sumerian sar, šar: n., a surface measure of one square ninda = 36 meters2. v., to insert, enter; to begin; to write; to pay, deliver punctually; to disturb someone; to drive (with -ni-); to drive, chase away (with -ta-); to run. adj., driven out, pursued.
    • Sumerian é-u₄-sar: new moon ('house' + 'to begin').
  • Hebrew qodesh, ko'-desh, from Heb. qadash, kaw-dash', a primary root to be clean, appoint, consecrate, dedicate, hallow; thus a sacred place or thing.

    In the Tablets from pre-Sargonic (before 2334 B.C.) the Calendar of Ur give us nine month names, however their order is not known.    The following is one of those nine names:

• 7) Sumerian itia-ki-ti (iti, month + a, water, offspring, father, the + ki, earth, place + ti, side, rib, arrow), which is not an easy one to get a transliteration of the phrase for a meaning "The Watering of the Earth's Side."    As shown above it is associated with "the sowing of grain" or the "month of perennial streams."
  • Sumerian itud, itid, itu, iti, id₈; it₄, id₄: moon; month; moonlight (te, 'to approach, meet', + ud, 'sun').
  • Sumerian a-ki-ti, (water, offspring, father, the + earth, place + side, rib, arrow) is seen as the Sumerian A, water or in, ki, earth, or the Vernal Equinox.
    • Sumerian a, e₄: n., water; watercourse, canal; seminal fluid; offspring; father; tears; flood. interj., alas!. prep., locative suffix - where; in; when - denotes movement towards or in favor of a person. def. article, nominalizing suffix for a noun or noun clause, denoting 'the'.
      • Sumerian á: (cf., áhi).
      • Sumerian a₅: (cf., aka).
    • Sumerian ki: n., earth; place; ground; grain. prep., where; wherever, whenever.
      • Sumerian kì: to build; to make; to act.
      • Sumerian ki-a-na : death offering ('earth' + 'water' + 'to water').
        • Sumerian šubur: earth.
        • Sahara to get Sumerian sahar: dust, sand, earth, mud, loam; rubbish; sediment (cf., kuš₇) (sa₅, 'red-brown', + hara, 'crushed, pulverized').
        • Sumerian ^dugsáhar [SAR]: clay pot.
    • Sumerian ti: side, rib; arrow (cf., dih and tìl).
      • Sumerian ti...ra: to shoot an arrow ('arrow' + 'to stab').
      • Sumerian ^(giš)ti-zú: barbed arrow ('arrow' + 'teeth; flint').

• Sumerian itud, itid, itu, iti, id₈; it₄, id₄: moon; month; moonlight (te, 'to approach, meet', + ud, 'sun').
• Sumerian ^dAMAR.UD, Akkadian ^dMarduk, which is Jupiter.    Lord Marad.
  Thus the Sumerian amar, calf; young animal + ud, sun, storm (demon), would read "The Young (Bull) God of the Sun."
  Note on the Sumerian amar-kud: separated, weaned young animal ('calf' + 'to cut away from').
  • The following can be found in "The Alpha and the Omega," Volume II by Jim A. Cornwell -- Insert for Chapter Five page 10, and also be seen under Aries in the Cassiopeia constellation section in regard to Zedek, or Gad.
    • The Babylonians worshipped her as Mylitta, i.e. generative.
      • Our Monday, or Moon-day, indicates the former prevalence of the moon-worship (Isa. 65:11 "they that forsake the LORD, ... forget my holy mountain, ... prepare a table for that troop, ... furnish drink offering unto that number.").
      • According to Gesenius and Kimchi, the word troop, rather Gad (a var. of the Heb. gad, gawd), is the Babylonian god of fortune, the planet of Jupiter, answers to Baal or Bel.    The Arabs called it "the Greater Good Fortune," and the planet Venus answering to Meni, "the Lesser Good Fortune."
      • Jerome claims that tables were laid out for their idols with all kinds of viands, and a cup containing a mixture of wine and honey, in Egypt especially, on the last day of the year.
      • Meni (the moon) as goddess of fortune was thought to number the fates of men.
        • Number.
          • Hebrew Meniy, men-ee', from Heb. manah, maw-naw', to weigh out, allot, count set, tell, thus Apportioner, i.e. Fate, as an idol, number, and probably Ashtaroth or Astarte (1 Kings 11:33 "have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon.").    Gad is probably the god of the sun.