Show MYTH OF MAN IN THE MOON I I Sends of Different Peoples Vary Greatly as to Phenomenon Pittsburg Dispatch hi Of or all the myths which have sprung i 1 p around the moon before GaU os telescope revealed another world with lofty mountains deep valleys and vast plains the tIlt oldest and probably the most to all Is that of or its human hu human man inhabitants Every Eer nursery has hasard heard leard ard the story stor of the man who was found by b Moses gathering sticks on the Sabbath and an condemned to dwell in the then n neon oon till tm the end of or time Originating doubtless in the th superficial superficial cial 11 resemblance of or some of o the mo on spots to a n man with a bundle of sticks on his bark baik b It would be handed down clown downLy by Ly L z as an edify ing warning It has even been referred to biblical authority German nurses nurse commonly vary van the tale talc by saying that the offender was given the choicer choice I of o burning in ht the sun or freezing in the and that he ho preferred a n lunar luna frost to a solar furnace But in the middle ages a es before Lutherans and n Puritans Pu Puritans had superimposed the tho c of o the Jewish Sabbath upon the Chris Christian tian tran Sunday the crime thus punished ws W s th ft It is 15 possible however that the tlc man mar mari IE it i 1 the moon myth th may claim an even ven remoter antiquity Primitive man had hada hadt a x t t to personify those natural whose host laws law he could not compre comprehend comprehend hend his Imagination endowed thorn them with human force and human feelings feeling rid nid Id with superhuman knowledge and i Hence the moon acquired d a sex fwd ard i a gender fn 1 and all der dp except Greek and Latin Latta and ami i grit modern languages as have haYe come romo i ir 1 r et the classical influence it is ig mas mastne i I j Vine lne And doubtless this is Ig the reason r ason I h r y the legendary woman In m the ther theL r L Jon oon is not nearly so prevalent as the legendary man Be Bt this as It may it 11 Is certain that In fable the moon is inhabited by byboth both sexes Foxes f For according to Mr Ba BaI the famous nursery rhyme rh bout Jack and Jill Till is derived dorin d from the Scandinavian SC myth of the two children and Bil who were taken up into tho moon mon with their polo and bucket as th y were Drawing f water They symbolize sym symbolize 1 bolic the waxing and waning of the moon noon while lile the water they the a arc c carry carr carrye e ing jag refers rs to the influence of the tho moons I phases es upon the rainfall There is an ancient belief beliE found in some Mme of the writings of the old c d that the moon ii it tf an abode of de departed departed t parted spirits And some of the South American Indians still sUll regard It t as their happy happ hunting ground the paradise of dead dad chiefs and braves But in the middle ages the moon was generally looked upon as the seat neat of hell lell and it Is probably this circumstance that led to the familiar association of o the moon with witchcraft |