Legends About The Moon
"In Ceylon," says John Fiske, "it is said that as Sakyamuni was one day wandering half starved in the forest a pious hare met him and offered itself to be slain and cooked for dinner, whereupon the holy Buddha set it on high in the moon that future generations of men might see it and marvel at its piety." In the Samoan islands these dark patches are supposed to be portions of a woman's figure. A certain woman was once hammering something with a mallet when the moon arose, looking so much like a breadfniit that the woman asked it to come down and allow her child to eat off a piece of it, but the moon, enra?ed at the insult, gobbled up woman, mallet and child, and there in the moon's belly yon niay still behold
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