Some pieces of mountain fell, and disclosed three points which could only serve to compose a forehead, a nose, and an old woman's chin." 64 Doubtless the face and the disfigurements were fictions of the author's lively imagination, and his words savour less of science than of satire but Fontenelle was neither the first nor the last of those to whom "the inconstant moon that monthly changes" has been an impersonation of the fickle and the feminine. "Astronomers perceived in the moon a particular figure which had the aspect of a woman's head, which came forth from between the rocks, and then occurred some changes in this region. She had a pretty good face, but her cheeks are now sunken, her nose is lengthened, her forehead and chin are now prominent to such an extent, that all her charms have vanished, and I fear for her days." "What are you relating to "Everything," he says, "is in perpetual motion even including a certain young lady in the moon, who was seen with a telescope about forty years ago, everything has considerably aged. 63 Fontenelle, the French poet and philosopher, saw a woman in the moon's changes. Rainbow-winged angels softly hover o'er her,Įach robed in light, and girt with meteor zone.'" 62Ī touching tradition is handed down by Berthold that the moon is Mary Magdalene, and the spots her tears of repentance. She is Chang-o, the beauteous Fairy Queen. Sits a fair form, arrayed in snowy whiteness.
"On a gold throne, whose radiating brightness Stent has aptly seized the idea of the Chinese versifier whom he translates The 'Goddess of the Palace of the Moon,' Chang-o, appeals as much to our sympathies as, and rather more so than, the ancient beldame who, in European folk-lore, picks up perpetual sticks to satisfy the vengeful ideas of an ultra-Sabbatical sect. Kingdom furnishes the following allusion: "The universal legend of the man in the moon takes in China a form that is at least as interesting as the ruder legends of more barbarous people. The woman in the moon as a myth does not obtain to any extent in Europe she is to be found chiefly in Polynesia, and among the native races of North America. It is not good that the man in the moon should be alone therefore creative imagination has supplied him with a companion. There's in you all that we believe of heaven To temper man we had been brutes without you.Īngels are painted fair, to look like you: 437-54.Sacred Texts Sky Lore Index Previous Next
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