Monday, September 12, 2011

Singing Moon and other full moon names for September 2011

Full moon. Image: morgueFile.

The full moon for September 2011 takes place tonight, September 12th. Following is a list of full moon names for September, ranging from common to surprising:

Corn Maker Moon - Abenaki
Middle Between Harvest and Eating Corn - Algonquin
Rice Moon - Anishnaabe
Geese Shedding Their Feathers Moon - Arapano
Binara Poya - Buddhist
Singing Moon - Celtic
Nut Moon - Cherokee
Drying Grass Moon - Cheyenne
Chrysanthemum Moon - Chinese
Little Chestnut Moon - Choctaw
Mulberry Moon - Choctaw
Harvest Moon - Colonial American
Paperman Moon - Comanche
Snow Goose Moon - Cree
Little Chestnut Moon - Creek
Moon When the Calves Grow Hair - Dakotah Sioux
Fruit Moon - English
Barley Moon - English Medieval
Ice Moon - Haida
Bhadrapad Poornima - Hindu
Moon of Full Harvest - Hopi
End of Summer - Kalapuya
Moon of the Brown Leaves - Lakota
Time of Much Freshness - Mohawk
Full Corn Moon - Native American
Harvest Moon - Neo Pagan
Moon When the Deer Paw the Earth - Omaha
Moon When the Corn Is Taken In - Pueblo
Papaw Moon - Shawnee
Fall Moon - Shoshone
Calves Grow Hair Moon - Sioux
Big Moon - Tlingit
Barley Moon - Wiccan
Her Acorns Moon - Wishram
Corn Is Harvested Moon - Zuni

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