What is the meaning of a crescent moon in a medieval crest?

Question

This one is different than most of the ones you see, the points are facing down.
P.S. this is not a family crest. It comes from a fortress in northern spain, where my family is from.

Answer 1

It is called the Naja. The naja symbol is an inverted crescent moon, found originally in the Moorish culture and then in Spain. It was hung on the forehead strap of a horse bridle to ward off the evil eye. The Moors called it "The Hands of Fatima".



This symbol has been found in archaeological diggings in Spain as early as 300 BC. The inverted crescent is common in the art of many cultures. The naja was brought to the Americas by the Spanish and adopted by native Americans in their jewelry. The meaning varies depending on how it is used from fertility in a native American Squash blossom to preventing 'evil eyes' (good luck) in Spain.

Answer 2

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A tealight candle will almost always form a crescent shape when it burns down. If you are looking to interpret melted wax shapes, a tea-light or any other container-based candle is the least-effective method for this. Try using a taper-style candle, anything from a little chime candle to a full-sized taper. That might mean allowing it to drip onto a plate below the candle-holder. Obviously, you'll want to avoid "dripless" candles when doing this. You could also use the water method where you drip the candle wax into water and read the shapes of the droplets. If you are still certain that it is a crescent moon shape you want to know about consider this... the moon is a very broad symbol. It sometimes symbolizes "The Goddess" or any lunar deities. If your moon crescent is waxing or waning, this may indicate a specific lunar deity. It also represents time and cycles... again, whether it's waxing or waning may indicate various things. The Moon, in tarot symbolism, could mean a different set of things... ranging from deception to the dream world to psychic powers... really, it's your symbol at this point and if you are using it for divination, you are the only one who can interpret it for yourself. Look up moon symbolism and see which things make the most sense to you and feel right. -Scarlet

Answer 3

The meaning of a crescent moon in a medieval crest is - whatever the person who put it on his shield wanted it to mean.



There is NO one meaning to any given symbol in heraldry, and any book or site that tells you there is, is lying to you. People picked the charges (= designs) for their coat of arms for their own reasons. Sometimes they picked something that was a pun on their own name. Sometimes they picked something that had a reference to some event in their life. Sometimes they just picked something that they thought looked good, and - most importantly - couldn't be confused with the coat of arms of anybody else in the kingdom. Remember, the primary purpose of a coat of arms was for indentification; so the first requirement was to choose something that would be distinctive.



So, if you want to know what - if anything - this crescent moon symbolises, you'll need to research the history of that fortress previous to the date at which that coat of arms was adopted. There may be some direct significance in the symbol; but it may simply have been adopted as being a pleasing and distinctive design.

Answer 4

meaning crescent moon medieval crest

Answer 5

Depending on your denomination of Paganism, it will mean different things. In terms of Wicca, the moon symbolizes the goddess. Each faze of the moon represents a phase of the Goddess's life. When it has just been born from a new moon and heads to the form of a full moon, that is her in her maiden form. As a full moon, she is a mother. And when she is heading to the form of a new moon, she has become a crone. I hope this has helped. I haven't been in Wicca for a long time, but I remember a lot of the symbolism within it.

Answer 6

http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm

Crescent: One who has been honored by the sovereign; hope of greater glory (horns to the chief or pointing up)



Decrescent: same meaning but horns facing right or to the sinister



According to the site http://www.goodluckcreations.com/horseshoecharm.html

a crescent moon resembles a horseshoe, and one pointing down means that it will "shower you with Luck". Legend says, that a Horseshoe 'Pointing up' will "gather your Luck,"



Americans of English and Irish descent prefer to display horseshoes upward; those of German, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, and Balkan descent generally hang them downward. People in some parts of Ireland and Britain believe that horseshoes must be turned upward or "the luck will run out."

Horseshoes were actually used by the Greeks as early as the 4th century B.C. Since horses were believed to be one of the most sacred of animals, their crescent-shaped shoes became symbols of good luck. It has associations with the strength and dependability of the horse, and, in upright position it is also symbolic of the moon. Pointing downwards, it is symbolic of the womb.

To the Greeks it symbolized the crescent moon which was regarded as a symbol of fertility.The modern association is more likely to be linked to a legendary tenth century Saint who trapped the Devil in a Horseshoe and as a result made him promise never to enter a Christian home marked by a Horseshoe hung above the door.





(Hope that gives you some idea)

Answer 7

i think in astrology the crescent moon was the Sign of the hermit, allot of medieval symbols came from religious or zodiac symbols.

Answer 8

This might help:

http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm

Answer 9

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