[MR] Heraldic Term of the Day: Moon/Crescent

[Beverly Robinson-Curry]

>From _An Heraldic Alphabet_ by J.P. Brooke-Little:

 

"Moon - The full moon is said to be "in her complement" or "in plenitude"
and often has a human face to distinguish her from a plate.  When the moon
is not full, she is a crescent and is so described unless a face is
indicated.

 

Crescent - A half moon with the horns pointing upwards.  If the horns point
to dexter it is an "increscent", if to the sinister, a decrescent, and if to
the base it is a "crescent reversed'.  It is the mark of a second son."

 

Moon in her Plenitude - http://www.aeheralds.net/rolls/individual.php?id=96

Crescent - http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Templates/Stars/Crescent.htm

 

A _de_crescent looks like the letter "C"; and an _in_crescent is reversed
from that.

 

 

Rhiannon

 

Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill

Triton Principal Herald

House Corvus, Atlantia