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# The Sun and the Moon Await the Coming of Christ
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/solntse-i-luna-ozhidaiut-prishestviia-khrista/
- Published: 2025-09-13T14:34:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Humour

The Sun and the Moon await the coming of Christ. Their faces suggest that they know exactly how you spent the summer.

This full-page fifteenth-century miniature illustrates one of the signs preceding the Last Judgement.

The medieval tradition of giving the Sun and the Moon human faces is a legacy of the ancient world. Their Christian iconography was borrowed from the pagan: this was how the ancient Romans customarily depicted their gods of the Sun and the Moon.