This is the first in a series. For many of my works in progress, I like to collect words that inspire or add to the atmosphere. One of my stories, currently dubbed Astrolatry, is set in a culture that values the skies above all else.
Aeon: a very long time; or, a thousand million years.
Astrolatry: the worship of stars and other heavenly bodies.
Atavistic: relating to something ancient.
Atramentous: black as ink.
Celestial: relating to heaven, the skies, or outer space.Cinnabar: brick red or scarlet in colour; a mercury sulphide mineral.
Deisial: clockwise.
Ethereal: heavenly.
Helios: the ancient greek deity of the sun.
Ichor: the blood of ancient greek gods that is golden in colour.
Gibbous: a moon that is more than half-full but not yet a full moon.
Luminous: bright and shining; giving off light.
Redamancy: reciprocal love; a love returned in full.
Selene: the ancient greek deity of the moon.
Selenelion: a lunar eclipse where both the sun and the eclipsed moon are visible on opposite points of the horizon. occurs at dawn or dusk.
Selenophilia: worship of the moon.
Syzygy: connected or corresponding things, often relating to planetary bodies.
Temenos: a place dedicated to a god; the sacred ground adjacent to a temple.
Umbra: the dark shadow created by an eclipse.
Verdant: richly populated with vegetation; bright grass-green in colour.
(note: as a writer, I've taken a certain amount of creative licence with my definitions, so please check an actual dictionary for the official meanings!)
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