Talk:mun

From Toki Pona

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1. lunation
   the phases of the moon, which repeat every 29½ days
2. something that repeats every 28 to 31 days

1. lunation

something that repeats every 28 to 30 days, like the phases of the moon or women's menstruation

-the moon, whose cycles used as a calendar for

{N}

mun lili: star, planet, comet, nebula

the natural satellite of the Earth, as seen

{N}

a small shape of light visible on the night sky a (small) light object, visible in the night sky, such as the moon, a star, planet, comet, etc.; celestial object, celestial body, heavenly body, night-sky object; moon, star, planet, comet or asteroid.

telo (loje) mun menses Nightlighting and the moon See also: Culture and menstruation

The word "menstruation" is etymologiacally related to "moon". The terms "menstruation" and "menses" are derived from the Latin mensis (month), which in turn relates to the Greek mene (moon) and to the roots of the English words month and moon—reflecting the fact that the moon also takes close to 28 days to revolve around the Earth (actually 27.32 days).

Some authors believe women in traditional societies without nightlighting ovulated with the full moon and menstruated with the new moon.[49] A few studies in both humans[50] and animals[51] have found that artificial light at night does influence the menstrual cycle in humans and the estrus cycle in mice (cycles are more regular in the absence of artificial light at night), though none have demonstrated the synchronization of women's menstrual cycles with the lunar cycle. It has also been suggested that bright light exposure in the morning promotes more regular cycles.[52] One author has suggested that sensitivity of women's cycles to nightlighting is caused by nutritional deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals.[53]

Other animals' menstrual cycles may be greatly different from lunar cycles: while the average cycle length in orangutans is the same as in humans—28 days[54]—the average for chimpanzees is 35 days.[55] Some take this as evidence that the average length of humans' cycle is most likely a coincidence.[56][57]

One group of authors has even theorized that menstruation may have played a key role in the development of symbolic culture in early human society.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_and_menstruation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunaception

mun lili wawa? = shooting star? (meteor) fast one mun (suli) = the moon mun lili = star, planet, comet mun linja = hair-like star, elongated star, line-shaped star? mun pi tawa sike = circular-moving stars, fixed stars mun pi tawa nasa = irregular-moving star = planet mun lili nanpa wan = Sirius? mun walo, mun sike = full moon = white moon, full moon mun pimeja = black moon, new moon mun pi kama suno = morning star = Venus mun pi tawa suno = evening star = Venus sewi pimeja = night sky sona mun = astronomy

kulupu pi mun lili = constellation, asterism

Easy to identify: kulupu mun uta? = W of cassio mun (lili) awen = North Star Big and little dippers Orion, betelgeuse to rigel with 3 in middle Orion's belt = mun lili tu wan (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka) linja suli mun? nasin walo? = milky way acrux, mimosa, hadar, alpha centauri mun lili nanpa wan = Sirius Moon = mun, mun suli, mun nanpa wan? Pleiades how many stars do you see? 5 is good, 6 is very good, 7 is excellent mun lili awen, lawa = polestar, polar star, lodestar+ North Star, Polaris

the night sky

sona mun pi toki pona = Toki Pona astronomy

stargazing

MUN MOON mun moon mun lunar mun satellite tenpo mun month

Naked-eye planets = Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn move across the sky in relation to the other stars. wandering stars.

Mars = mun loje, the red planet

As a modifier it means “moon, lunar”.

tenpo mun moon period month

astronomy?

see also mun

Uranus

oko Jupite kule sewi = aurora (Northern lights)

(oko lawa = lodestar? , e.g. North Star oko pi tawa ala = doesn't move oko awen = )

most visible in the night sky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaeleon

move proper nouns to Foreign Words

kulupu mun pi poka suli (Esamesa) = Big Dipper, Plough (Ursa Major) kulupu mun pi poka lili (Esamana) = Little Dipper (Ursa Minor) kulupu mun Awajen Orion kulupu mun Northern Cross (Cygnus)

kulupu mun Kuwasi = Southern Cross (Crux) milky Way

Constellations and asterisms kulupu mun pi pini pi ilo hunting ? = Taurus the arrow head

Cepheus (I always loved the hat). In the summer, the Summer Triangle sticks out like a sore thumb. When I lived in more southerly latitudes, Canopus

the Summer Triangle (and consequently Aquila, Lyra, and especially Cygnus), Corona Borealis, Bootes, Virgo, and Cepheus

Like the other commenters, Orion is a big one for me. The Southern Cross and Scorpio are the other two constellations I can immediately identify by sight. Canopus in Carina and Achernar in Eridanus.

magnitude 3 and under = Faintest stars visible in an urban neighborhood with naked eye

COLOURS (b-v colour index)

• mun lili loje = reddish star, betelgeuse 1.85, antares 1.87, aldebaran 1.54
• orange star: arcturus (1.23), pollux (1.0)
• mun lili laso (blue-white stars): vega (0), rigel -0.03, regulus -0.11/0.87, spica -0.13?, castor 0.04, Beta Centauri -0.22, acrux -0.25
• yellow-white: procyon
• white: sirius, formalhaut, altair
• yellowish: capella, rigil, canopus

Also seem reddish: Iota Aurigae aka Hasseleh (1.53)?

yellowish stars

• Polaris (1.95, 0.63)
• Capella (0.05, 0.75)

blue stars

• mun lili laso = blueish star

magnitude, B-V colour index

• • Spica (0.95, -0.25)
  • Alnitak aka Zeta Orionis (1.85, -0.09)
  • Naos aka Zeta Puppis (2.20, -0.28)
  • Meissa aka Lambda Orionis (3.50, -0.19)
  • Mintaka aka Delta Orionis (2.40, -0.03)
  • Rigel (1.50, -0.03)
  • Sirius (-1.45, 0.00)
  • 15 Monocerotis (4.65, -0.22)

the brighter Pleiades stars are bluish

Pleiades: mun lili luka wan (depending how many you can see)

Canopus: jan lawa pi southern sky? scared of north star.

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/brightest.html list by apparent magnitude at least down to pollux

Alpha Centauri Rigel Procyon Achernar Hadar (Agena) Altair Spica Antares Fomalhaut Deneb Mimosa Regulus Algol Capella Procyon Regulus Gienah Spica Arcturus Alphecca

Na Kuhikuhi: “The Pointers”; translation of the haole name for a pair of stars which points to the Southern Cross. The first star (Beta Centauri) is called Kamailemua (“The first maile”); the second star (Alpha Centauri) is called Kamailehope (“The last maile”).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliacal_rising

Orion's Belt: jan hunt apijesa; soweli pi tawa wawa; soweli tawa Cassiopeia: ilo seli Canis Minor / Procyon: mije moli; jan moli; Canis Major: suno lili? (the flickering) Big Dipper, Plough (Ursa Major): soweli suli? soweli hunt? (caribou) head of Taurus?: jama? dogs Aldebaran: kon pi soweli wawa Arcturus: mije sona; mije pi linja walo (old man) Arcturus and Muphrid (Boötes): tu sinpin? (2 in front) Muphrid: mije lili pi mama ala Vega: meli sona (old woman) Boötes: kulupu mun nanpa wan (first ones) Lyra: kulupu mun nanpa tu (the one behind) Pleiades: kiwen walo insa (breastbone) Polaris: mun pi tawa ala; mun awen (never moves) Milky Way: linja kipisi (divider) Gemini and Auriga, specifically Pollux, Castor, Menkalinan, Capella (collarbones) Altair and Tarazed (Aquila): linja suno tu; mun tu pi linja suno (two sunbeams) Sirius: mun suno? suno lili? mun pi suno mute? Betelgeuse and Bellatrix : 2 placed far apart Orion's sword (or orion nebula?): mije lili pata (nephews) Southern Cross: mun olin pi mun suli “Cared for by the moon”

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/hawaiian/voyaging/files/t07-navigation/t07-01_glossary.html

"The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window every two minutes the earth, the moon, the sun, and the whole 360 degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful overwhelming experience. And suddenly i realize (that) the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the spacecraft, the molecules in the bodies of my partners were prototyped and manufactured in some ancient generation of stars. And that was an overwhelming sense of oneness, of connectedness. It wasn't them and us. It was 'that's me'. That's all of it. It's one thing. And it was accompanied by an ecstasy, a sense of 'oh my God wow yes', an insight, an epiphany." -- Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut

Whether it's coincidence or there's a physical connection.

captivated our imaginations something that inspires , mesmerizes, fascinate,s holds spellbound

Even in English, The word "menstruation" is etymologically related to "moon". The terms "menstruation" and "menses" are derived from the Latin mensis (month), which in turn relates to the Greek mene (moon) and to the roots of the English words month and moon—reflecting the fact that the moon also takes close to 28 days to revolve around the Earth (actually 27.32 days). The synodical lunar month, the period between two new moons (or full moons), is 29.53 days long.

The Talmudic tradition[49] ascribes a direct relationship between the lunar position and the onset of menstruation. The Hebrew month, lunisolar, follows the lunar cycle (new moon, full moon etc.) Talmudic codes of law[50], therefore, forbid intimacy during the Hebrew date on which menstruation had begun the prior month -- perchance it will appear again on this date.

Some authors believe women in traditional societies without nightlighting ovulated with the full moon and menstruated with the new moon.[51] A few studies in both humans[52] and animals[53] have found that artificial light at night does influence the menstrual cycle in humans and the estrus cycle in mice (cycles are more regular in the absence of artificial light at night), though none have demonstrated the synchronization of women's menstrual cycles with the lunar cycle. It has also been suggested that bright light exposure in the morning promotes more regular cycles.[54] One author has suggested that sensitivity of women's cycles to nightlighting is caused by nutritional deficiencies of certain vitamins and minerals.[55]

Other animals' menstrual cycles may be greatly different from lunar cycles: while the average cycle length in orangutans is the same as in humans—28 days[56]—the average for chimpanzees is 35 days.[57] Some take this as evidence that the average length of humans' cycle is most likely a coincidence.[58][59]

corresponding to a cycle of roughly

The synodical lunar month, the period between two new moons (or full moons), is 29.53 days long.

1. a period from one new moon until the next.
2. a synodic month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.

lunation (plural lunations)

  1. a month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase. On average, the number of days between Full Moons is about 29.5306 days. The actual number of days may differ from the average number by more than a half day. From one Full Moon to the next, the number of days in one lunation can vary between 29.272 and 29.833 days.
  2. The name or term given the irregular period from one new moon until the next.

[edit] Synonyms

synodic month (plural synodic months)

  1. a month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase. The long-term average duration is 29.530 588 days (29 d 12 h 44 min 2.8 s), or about 29 ½ days.
  2. the variably cyclic period from one new moon until the next.

mun is one of the more mysterious words in Toki Pona. It may not be used as often as some other words, but it holds sacred meaning, especially for women.

telo (loje) mun lunar blood menstruation

len moon moon cloth menstrual pad, tampon