Show moon myths people the world over have used the dark lines and spots on the face of the moon as a basis of conjecturing all sorts of fanciful pictures to some they appear as an aged man bearing a bundle of sticks or fagots fagons on liis his back to others they represent the face of a beautiful woman the one hundred and one other moon myths cannot be considered in this note which is solely intended to explain indian belief the red men who inhabit the whole western continent between the rocky mountains and the cascade range believe that the spots on lunas face represent the form of a gigantic toad |