Meanings
adjectivecrescential (comparative more crescential, superlative most crescential)
comparative more crescential · superlative most crescential
- rareCrescent-shaped; crescentic.
And these speculations might equally apply to the enigmatic opposition of crescential motifs on the brow of edan and elsewhere within the tradition. These crescents, I think, hint of invisible threeness within twoness. Ogboni meji o di eta.
1971, Robert Farris Thompson, Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, L.A.: University of California, page 6/4, column 2
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