😔 Since the
beginning of the genocidal Jihad in the Northern Ethiopian regions of
Tigray, Amhara and Afar in November 2020 till today:
❖ – Up
to 2 Million Orthodox Christians were brutally Massacred
❖ – 200.000
Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns were Raped and abused
❖ – Over
a Million Ethiopians were forced to migrate to other countries
❖ – 4.4
million internally displaced people severely impacted by conflict,
hostilities and climate shocks
❖ – Over
a Million female Ethiopian slaves sold to Arab countries
❖ – 20
million Ethiopian forced to experience food insecurity
by
the fascist Islamo-Protestant, Oromo army of the prosperity gospel
heretic Prime Monster Abiy Ahmed Ali and his UN, Arab, Israeli,
Turkish, Iranian, European, American, Russian, Ukrainian, African
allies.
❖[Acts 2:20]❖
“The
sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day
of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.”
🌕 The
word “August” brings two things to the Orthodox
Christian mind, one of them being the Moon.
The other one is the Dormition (Assumption) of the Mother of God, one
of the great feasts of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches
that takes place in August, 15/ 22.
Though it might
be easy to reject lunar lore as mere superstition, we cannot deny
that the moon captures our imagination.
The Moon is
associated with the three greatest mysteries of life: birth, love and
death. The moon “is born” and “dies” again each month,
following a never-ending cycle: waxing, full moon, and waning. For a
night it completely disappears from the sky and then it pops up again
in the form of a thin crescent.
❖[Revelation
12:1]❖
“And a great
sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars."
The moon under
her feet represents her dominion and victory over her enemies. Then
finally clothed with the sun. This is an important woman! This is the
Queen of Heaven!
♰ Orthodox Feast Day Context
🧕 The Feast of
the Dormition:
August 15th marks the Dormition, or "falling asleep," of
the Virgin Mary, a major feast in the Orthodox Church.
🌕 August Moon:
The month of August brings to mind both the moon and the Dormition,
creating a timely opportunity for contemplation of Mary's spiritual
significance and the contrast between the temporary full moon and her
eternal nature.
In the
Orthodox tradition, the "The full
Moon" is a spiritual symbol representing the Mother of God's
grace and glory, often invoked in relation to the Feast of the
Dormition on August 15th
/ 22nd , when her radiant "light knows no decay" unlike a
waning moon. This imagery connects to biblical descriptions of the
"woman clothed with the sun" standing on the moon,
symbolizing her queenship and victory, and highlights the contrast
between the temporary nature of the moon and the eternal fullness of
Mary's grace and glory.
The term “Dormition” (Greek Koímēsis or Kimisis, “falling
asleep”) is used instead of the word “death.” The Catholics
prefer to call it “the Assumption of Mary.”
Perhaps Mary appears reborn or resurrected after her
death because archetypal figures cannot really die. Even if that
happens, their death does not last for long. You see, the moon
insists on traveling endlessly in its celestial cycles. Much like
Mary, it temporarily “dies” only to make a powerful comeback in
our lives...
As
the moon at its full she shines. The blessed Mary is said to be the
full moon, because in every way perfect. The moon is imperfect when a
half-moon, because it is stained or horned. But the glorious Virgin
neither in Her birth had any stain, because sanctified in Her
mother's womb, guarded by angels, nor in Her days had She the horns
of pride. Hence, She shone fully and perfectly. She is said to be
light because She dispels the darkness.
🌕 The
Moon is a holy place, an Orthodox place.
But not everyone
knows that there are places on the moon named after Orthodox saints.
The modern system
of naming lunar craters, "seas" (dark lowlands), and
mountain ranges dates to 1651, when the Jesuit astronomers Giovanni
Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi published a detailed
map of the Moon based on telescopic observation. Riccioli was
responsible for naming the topographic features; perhaps
surprisingly, he mostly avoided religious references. The "seas"
he gave allegorical or poetic names such as "Sea of
Tranquility"; the craters he named for famous astronomers.
Riccioli's overall system has been maintained to this day, although
explorers, aviation pioneers, and cosmonauts joined astronomers as
approved eponyms for craters. Official lunar terminology is currently
regulated by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a very
strict and conservative bureaucratic organization fond of secular
history and ancient mythology, but with a strong bias against
"living" religions, especially Christianity.
Given this
history, it is perhaps surprising that there are any lunar features
named for Orthodox saints, but in fact there are six. Three of them
are named for pre-Schism Western saints, and three for saints of the
East. Although this symmetry was not intended by the selenographers,
it may perhaps be considered providential.
There
are in fact craters named "Mary" and "Donna", the
latter being a form of "Madonna".
