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Is The Moon Male Or Female?
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Aristotle would divide the universe into the cislunar and translunar spheres. Cislunar is the limit of living things. So maybe cisgender and transgender?
No ancient Greek has masculine, feminine and neuter genders soo..... that can't be right. Aristotle is responsible for yet another error....
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I want the beer stein clinking emoji back...... Tongue in cheek would be good too.Don Quixote wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:30 pmnotFritzArgelander wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:18 pmThere is no denying that the gender of the Moon in different languages and cultures is different. So "YES!" please. Many ideas are culturally defined.Don Quixote wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:15 pm And as to a "cultural" definition of gender...please...
My comments are along the lines of entertainment as we "argue" over the gender of the moon.
If only we had an icon for "tongue-in-cheek"
Thank you.
I went wandering off to look at gender in language and there are interesting language differences by gender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_ro ... #Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_ro ... guage#Asia
From my time in Japan I know that language differs by both gender and age. It's indicated by the degree of politeness shown by verb choices. For instance "is" or "to be" can be in order from familiar to polite "de / da", "desu", "gozaimasu", and "de gozaimasu". One does not want to make verb choices that are so polite that you are mistaken for a 12 year old girl....
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Well, at least that's what my inner hippy is telling me ... man.
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Below is a cut and paste from a full article that was originally posted here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... 4433604911
This is how various cultural groups see it in South Africa.
The Moon
The Moon – iNyanga to the Xhosa and Zulu, Nwedzi to the Shona and Venda, and Ngwedi to the Sotho and Tswana – is probably the most obvious feature in the night sky, because of its size, brightness, and changing appearance (phases). As the Moon orbits the Earth it goes through a sequence of phases, from New Moon (invisible) to crescent, half-moon, Full Moon, half-moon, and back to New Moon.
To the Kora KhoiKhoi, the Moon was kham, “the Returner”; the Nama KhoiKhoi spoke of khab. The KhoiKhoi also considered the Moon as “the Lord of Light and Life”, and would sing and dance at times of New and Full Moon.
The Nyae Nyae !Kung Bushmen said that the crescent phases with sharp points was male, while the Full round Moon was female.
The Xhosa considered the time of New Moon as a period of inaction. When it reappeared as a crescent in the evening sky, it was cause for celebration. Important events were scheduled to take place around the time of Full Moon. Also at Full Moon the mothers would de-worm their children, believing that at this time the worms collected in one place and could be effectively treated.
The Naro Bushmen taught that when the crescent Moon slopes downward, it is said to be looking into a grave and this is a sign that many people will die in that season. A crescent pointing upward was a favourable sign. The round Full Moon is a sign of satisfaction and that people will find plenty of food.
In /Xam Bushmen mythology, the Moon is a man who has made the Sun angry. The Sun’s sharp light cuts off pieces of the Moon until almost the whole of the Moon is gone, leaving only one small piece. The Moon then pleads for mercy and the Sun lets him go. From this small piece, the Moon gradually grows again until it becomes a Full Moon. The /Xam also have another account of how the Moon came to be. In the old times, it was said, the Moon was one of the leather sandals of the Mantis-god /kaggen. The sandal was placed in water to soften it somewhat, but this angered the water spirit who then froze the water, locking the sandal in ice. When /kaggen saw the frozen sandal he discarded it, throwing it up into the sky, where it became the Moon. Whatever its origin, the /Xam considered the New Moon as being able to influence hunting and the gathering of ants’ eggs, and when the crescent was sighted, they would ask for its assistance.
The surface of the Moon has dark and bright markings; flat lava plains and rocky highlands, respectively. In many African traditions these markings are said to resemble the figure of a man or woman carrying a bundle of sticks.
When the Earth’s shadow falls on the Moon, a lunar eclipse occurs. The Nyae Nyae !Kung Bushmen said that this was caused by the lion, putting his paw over the Moon to darken the night so he could have better hunting
Under certain atmospheric conditions, a “moon bow” can form, appearing as a large ring around the Moon. To the /Gwi Bushman, such a ring was a sign that food will be plentiful.
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