Anyone noticed how it is a thing now to have a cute name for every full moon now, often with a “super” tacked on the front? For instance, right now we have a “Super Snow Moon.” Coming later this year are
Super Worm Moon
Super Pink Moon
Super Flower Moon
Strawberry MoonBuck Moon
Sturgeon Moon
Harvest Moon
Corn Moon
Hunter’s Moon
Beaver Moon (Really? Freaking Beaver Moon?)
Cold Moon
Is this utterly idiotic, or am I standing alone?
Everyone’s favorite:
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*Kiss My Ass Moon.
They are translations of Algonquin names for full moons (months), which apparently were in widespread use over Northeast North America, to the Great Lakes.
The ‘super’ is a modern astronomical term referring to the apparent size of the moon due to its closeness to the earth.
Beavers were important aquatic rodents before they were your hurr hurr he said beaver. They shaped a great part of the ecosystem wherever they lived.
Thinking that European colonists usurping native names for things is … problematic … is a legitimate complaint, but “cute”? Let’s hear YOUR moon names.
That’s just it–I don’t fucking name every full moon of the year. My list of names for the full moon:
Full moon.
Amen brother. I was going to post this myself. Routine astronomy turned into click bait.
Thank you for this. I was actually thinking about starting a thread about this, probably in MPSIMS though. Not the Pit.
When did this crap start? I vaguely remember the first few times I heard about a “named” moon I thought “oh cool. This must be something special. Maybe bigger or something. I’ll have to remember to take a look at it.”
But then it kept happening. And each time the moon just looked like the same old moon. Now I just try to ignore it.
Oh, for fuck’s sake, no it isn’t.
(Like others in this thread, including the OP, I personally don’t have a separate name for every full moon. If you want to have a separate name for every full moon, knock yourself out–and I don’t give a damn if you’re Algonquin or not–but it is a bit twee.)
Except for that Moons Over My Hammy. Hold the toast and the home fries and that shit is awesome.
The super blood wolf moon was cool. Admit it.
Just like the weather.
Umm… no?
I’ve heard of a “harvest moon,” probably even before Neil Young named an album that, but I don’t think I’ve encountered any of the others.
Wow, more full moon names than I realized. I see someone mentioned the Wolf Moon. Blue Moon is another full moon, quite popular in songs and sayings.
I think just in the last couple-three years. (Here is a full worm supermoon and here is a Friday 13th micro harvest moon.)
I think gynecologists should adopt this tradition, “So, looking forward to your super sturgeon harvest period?”
Well, I’m no historian, but Wiki quotes, “A lunar calendar was found at Warren Field in Scotland and has been dated to c. 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period. Some scholars argue for lunar calendars still earlier…”
Let me know when Sailor Moon is coming. Or even better Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon.
It’s the damned Astrologer’s fault:
Shoulda hung them when we had the chance.
As a survivor of the most recent Major Gargantuan Bomb Cyclone Tornadic Supercell Squall Line, I beg to differ. If they hadn’t named it, we would’ve thought it was just a plain cold front. And where would we be now?
Most cultures named the full moons–it’s no different than us arbitrarily deciding to go with our calendar month names and actually makes MORE sense since the full moons are way more consistent and regular and accurately mark the progression of the year. We’re just seeing more and different names from different cultures is all. It doesn’t hurt any of us and it’s kinda interesting to see what other peoples in other times decided was important to emphasize while marking the year into manageable chunks.
No Kieth Moon. 