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>tfw the moon is as often a male deity as a female one

why live?

>> No.5773719

Friend, the moon cannot be a constant with its ever shifting faces. To place restrictions on it would be to restrain its very nature!

Take delight in the moon's freedom to be whatever it likes except constant. It will never be constant.

>> No.5773720

Anthropomorphizing big rocks in the sky is no way to live, anon.

>> No.5773728

>>5773719
fuck you
>>5773720
thank you

>> No.5773729
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5773729

>>5773714
>tfw no qt moon gf to run through forests and hunt stags with

Just kill me

>> No.5773751

>>5773720
Warum? Wir machen nicht jetzt Wissenschaft.

>> No.5773755

>>5773714
Really? What world do you live on? The moon is always feminine, for obvious reasons.

>> No.5773757

>>5773720
man can't live on science alone

>> No.5773759

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DSOSudkwY

etc

>> No.5773761

>>5773757

Conquering your fears and confusion about spirit/being need not involve deifying stone

>> No.5773762

>>5773755
That's what I believed, but it seems to be a wholly western perspective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lunar_deities#Moon_in_mythology

As you can see, about as many cultures have a male moon god as a female one. It's even enough, at least, to convince me that the moon has no true resonance with either male or female.

>> No.5773767

>>5773761
well what did you do, then?

>> No.5773768

>>5773762

Allah used to be an arabic moon god before the whole islam thing, if i'm not mistaken

>> No.5773770

>>5773714
Honestly, it makes more sense to have Sun as a female deity and the Moon as a male deity.

>> No.5773771

>>5773767

I smoked weed and got laid. It's a work in progress.

>> No.5773775

>>5773770
But women have periods that correspond with the full moon

>> No.5773780

>>5773761

>confusion about spirit

This coming from the empiricism nazi. Amusing.

>> No.5773786

>>5773729
artemis is forever virgin btw and will turn you into a stag yourself if you try to watch her bathing

>> No.5773791

>>5773771
>

>> No.5773815

>>5773762
Your understanding of paganism and 'gods' is very facile and ahistorical. Wikipedia suxx.

>> No.5773846

>>5773815
ok, can u direct me to good sources then? I want to put this issue to rest

>> No.5773865

You have to investigate each relationship to understand it, anon. Not just look at wikipedia. Try to find out what is the role of the Moon to each culture. For example, in patriarchal societies in which the man always comes first, combined with the notion that the Moon reflects the light of the Sun, the Moon will be female. In others, the Moon might appear as the original dim light that is transformed in creative force by the Sun, as if a male Moon impregnated a female Sun.

None of this is fixed. It's not only the gender of the Moon that changes from culture to culture, but also what it means to be of that gender. You also have to account for the fact that a lot of these cultures borrow from each other and so you might find a strong tradition that appears to be fixed only because that's all you know.

The characteristics of the planets and other natural things speak of the relationships between people as well as their relationship to this nature. Of course it will change from culture to culture. Consider that in some cultures, the months of December and January are given as a moment of rebirth, because of course, after the winter solstice it only gets better. That is true to a lot of cultures, but still, it only works for the northern hemisphere. There is something in common between the cultures that take the Moon as female and the cultures that take the Moon as male.

>> No.5773871

>>5773759
lovely song anon, thanks for sharing!

>> No.5773889

Funnily enough, in the german language the moon is male (der Mond) while the sun is female (die Sonne), while the day is male (der Tag) and the night is female (die Nacht).

I find this fitting, since in my aesthetic ideas I always correlate the female with the fire, the hot, the emotional (the heat of the sun) but also with the obscure and the uncertain (the darkness of the night), while I associate the male with the calmness and the coolness of the moon light, while also associating it with the clarity and precision that the day's brightness allows.

Needless to say, the most aesthetically perfect appearance is the moon at day. It is a shame that the sun can't shine at night.

>> No.5774117

>>5773751
bitte?