Such associations include the Greek hunting Goddess Artemis (Diana in Roman mythology), the Greek Goddess of the night Nyx, Tanit the Great Goddess of the Carthaginians and Astarte (Ishtar) the Mesopotamean (Eastern) Goddess associated with War.Ĥ. The symbol occurs throughout history as being symbolic of a specific God or (more commonly) Goddess. There is a school of thought that when the image appeared as a single star it was representative of Venus which is the second brightest object in the night sky after the moon.ģ. The moon and stars represented the Gods to the Sumerians and would have been considered a symbol of worship. The Sumerians were said to have a knowledge of the solar system that far surpassed anything their primitive technology should have allowed them to know and they left this knowledge to us in the form of carvings and sculpture. The crescent moon and stars first appear in the carvings left to us by the Sumerian culture - possibly the oldest civilisation that ever lived on our planet. You may notice that a similar image (usually a single star) appears on the flags of many countries, this is to show their faith in Islam.Ģ. Islam is not a Pagan religion but an Abrahamic religion - which alongside Christianity evolved from the parent religion of Judaism. Islam, a world religion originating in the East has strong links to the moon cycle and the most important phase of the Muslim calendar - the fasting month of Ramadan - is determined by the cycle of the moon.
The symbol is possibly most recognisable (in both this form and with a single star) as a symbol of the Islamic faith. As with many symbols (including the cross, the swastika and the pentacle) the symbol has come to denote different meanings and over time the meanings have become so interchangeable that no single absolute answer would be possible.ġ. There is a good deal of discussion on this subject so what I'll do is list some of the theories for you so you can see how different cultures and faiths have claimed this symbol for their own.
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