Moon as an Archetype

Bibliography

Symbols/Definition

Literature

Modern Culture

In Mythology

Collier,Irene Dea. Chinese Mythology Rocks. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, Inc., c2012. Print.

"Easter Sunday in United States" Time and Date. Web 17 Sept. 2012

John Heywood's Proverbes: Came up with the moon is made of greene cheese.

"HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Great Moon Hoax of 1835." HistoryBuff.com -- History Library -- The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.

"Mythical creatures and Beasts" Mythical Creatures Guide. Web. 17 Sept. 2012

• Feminine Principles
• resurrection/ changes from one phase to another

Sailor Moon

Werewolf: Transforms on the full moon

In Old Times

Diana/Artemis: Rome and Greece, associated with hunting and childbirth, feminine.

In Old Times

The Moon

Modern Uses

Modern Uses

Zombies

Easter

Chang'e:

• Chinese mythology
• Lonely lady who became the goddess of the moon after she left her husband and flew away
• Feminine Principle

Khonsu: Egypt, name means traveler.

The Great Moon Hoax: 1835 Newspaper article

The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox

• Chinese Methology
• dead but able to "come back alive" when full moon comes
• Resurrection

believed to represent the time of Jesus Christ's resurrection

Yin-Yang

• Moon is thought as Yin as the sun is to Yang
• Ladies are to Yin as men are to Yang
• Still represents Feminine principles
• Many girls are named Moon in China. Thought girls are supposed to be like the moon.

Man in the moon

Even church father St. Augustine,

writing within the framework of 4th century

Christianity, still used the cycles of the moon as his

"proof" that there was a resurrection from the dead

The Moon and the Great Snake

As late as 600 B.C. in the Hebrew culture of the Old Testament, the new moon demanded special and generous offerings and sacrifices. The Hebrew Sabbath was originally a new moon celebration. As the moon is reborn at the end of the third day, so shall the dead be reborn to a new life

Tecciztecatl: Aztec, Represented the old man in the moon

Lost Paradise by C.L. Moore

• Native American Folk Stories
• "Now, I have not told you all about it yet, nor will I tell you tonight, but the Moon is the Sun's wife, and some day I shall tell you that story"
• You know that the Sun goes early to bed, and that the Moon most always leaves before he gets to the lodge.

The great and well known Mayan calendar was based on phases of the moon and the menstrual cycles.