even after all these years , geh-meer could remember the sharirohs exact words as she talked about the moon and the kree-eh : she , whom men call shaamoh , the pale lady , truly has four names : maataa when she is new , a waif barely visible in the sky ; shaamoh , as her body grows and assumes its shapely form ; sheehah when she takes on the pregnant glory of womanhood ; and sounaa as she curves and shrinks , bent by the weight of the knowledge she must bear in this world .