Genesis 1:14
And Elohim said, "Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs (226) and appointed times, and for days and years,
YirmeYahu 10:2
Thus said Yahuah, "Do not learn the way of the gentiles, and do not be awed (2865) by the signs (226) of the heavens, for the gentiles are awed by them.
#226 owth
1) sign, signal
a) a distinguishing mark
b) banner
c) remembrance
d) miraculous sign
e) omen
f) warning
2) token, ensign, standard, miracle, proof
#2865 chathath
1) to be shattered, be dismayed, be broken, be abolished, be afraid
2) to be broken down with fear, be confounded
Land Dyak peoples (Hindu)
"At full moon and on the third day after it (called bubuk), no farm work may be done, unless it is wished that the paddy should be devoured by blight and mildew. In some tribes the unlucky days are those of the new and full moon, and its first and third quarters." Rest Days, page 37
Brahmans
With the development of the complex ritual of Brahmanism holy and unlucky days became almost identical with days when the sacred books should not be read. The code of Manu requires a learned Brahman not to recite the Veda on the new-moon day, or on the fourteenth and eighth days of each half-month, or on the full-moon day. It is said that "the new-moon day destroys the teacher, the fourteenth day the pupil, the eighth and full-moon days destroy all remembrance of the Veda; let him therefore avoid reading on those days." Rest Days, page 152
Babylonia
No other hypothesis will explain the outstanding fact that shabattum was equated with um nukh libbi as a day for appeasing the anger of the deity. And if for practical purposes the fourteenth day might be a shabattum, it is not difficult to assume that this was also the case with the days (seventh, twenty-first, and twenty-eighth, perhaps, also, the nineteenth), which marked other characteristic stages of the lunation. In the developed Babylonian cult all these were "evil days," when the gods must be propitiated and conciliated. Rest days, page 241
For further reading on Babylonian moon omens, please see:
http://www.geocities.com/astrologyomens ... arious.htm
from The Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Nineveh and Babylon: Vol II, R Cambell Thompson, London, March 1st, 1900.
So let me get this straight:
Yahuah appointed the luminaries and said they would be for signs and so on, and a sign is a distinguishing mark, so when you see the luminaries do something it would tell me it would have something to do with appointed times, days, and years. In other words, there is a distinguishing sign in the luminaries to indicate something such as the full moon being on the Feast day, (Ps. 81:3). So Yahuah says in YirmeYahu not to be dismayed at the signs for the heathen are dismayed; which is the same word used in Genesis 1:14 for signs. With a little research we have found where the heathen were dismayed at certain signs and as you have read, some are moon phase related. Hmmmm huh -okay.
~Greg