LXXVIII. 1. And the names of the sun are the following: the first
Orjârês, and the second Tômâs. 2. And the moon has four names: the first
name is Asônjâ, the second Eblâ, the third Benâsê, and the fourth Erâe.
3. These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the
circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both
is alike. 4. In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of
light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite
measures it is transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is
exhausted. 5. And they set and enter the portals of the west, and make
their revolution by the north, and come forth through the eastern
portals on the face of the heaven. 6. And when the moon rises
one-fourteenth part appears in the heaven: [the light becomes full in
her]: on the fourteenth day she accomplishes her light. 7. And fifteen
parts of light are transferred to her till the fifteenth day (when) her
light is accomplished, according to the sign of the year, and she
becomes fifteen parts, and the moon grows by (the addition of)
fourteenth parts. 8. And in her waning (the moon) decreases on the first
day to fourteen parts of her light, on the second to thirteen parts of
light, on the third to twelve, on the fourth to eleven, on the fifth to
ten, on the sixth to nine, on the seventh to eight, on the eighth to
seven, on the ninth to six, on the tenth to five, on the eleventh to
four, on the twelfth to three, on the thirteenth to two, on the
fourteenth to the half of a seventh, and all her remaining light
disappears wholly on the fifteenth. 9. And in certain months the month
has twenty-nine days and once twenty-eight. 10. And Uriel showed me
another law: when light is transferred to the moon, and on which side it
is transferred to her by the sun. 11. During all the period during which
the moon is growing in her light, she is transferring it to herself when
opposite to the sun during fourteen days [her light is accomplished in
the heaven], and when she is illumined throughout, her light is
accomplished in the heaven. 12. And on the first day she is called the
new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. 13. She becomes full
moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east
she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through till the
sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.
14. On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again
she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are
at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light. 15. And three
months she makes of thirty days, and at her time she makes three months
of twenty-nine days each, in which she accomplishes her waning in the
first period of time, and in the first portal for one hundred and
seventy-seven days. 16. And in the time of her going out she appears for
three months (of) thirty days each, and for three months she appears
(of) twenty-nine each. 17. At night she appears like a man for twenty
days each time, and by day she appears like the heaven, and there is
nothing else in her save her light.