12. Creations of Egyptian Mythology

For Egyptians, the moon was one among the number of traditional deities. As attributed to the deity Horus the moon represents his left eye while his right was the sun. Seth was a lunar deity, who fall under struggle with the solar god Horus. Seth is seen as the divinity of darkness doing constant battle with the god of light. The Ibis-headed God Thoth wears a lunar crescent on his head. In the Bible’s Genes is the name Adam is derived from " adamah, " which can be translated as "bloody loam." Many of them associate with the moon with menstruation. The Babylonians, Romans, Indians and Muslims work out the lunar year based on their calendar systems. In many civilizations the moon god is female Ishtar (Assyrian/Babylonian), Quilla (Inca), Dschan (Thailand), Selene (Greece), Luna (Roman Empire), and very often the moon goddess are as well the goddess of fertility and motherhood. Furthermore, the crescent moon was illustrated with many cases associated by virgin goddess like the Greek Artemis or the equivalent Roman Diana and later with the Maiden Mary. The Roman goddess Juno was also associated with the new moon.^[1] Several Modern Hebrew words are based on the word yare’ah as the moon. A small moon, that orbits the planets, is known as yerei'hon, for being a Hebrew suffix that creates the diminutive form.