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Show The Man In the Moon. According to Pratorius, the man in the moon is the Patriarch Isaac, carrying carry-ing the bundle of sticks which were to be lighted to sacrifice his own body on the mountain top. Dante believes him to be Cain, carrying a bundle of thorns, the meanest offering his lands afforded, as a present to God. In Iceland the people peo-ple claim that they can see the face of Adam in the moon and that of Eve in the sun, Among the Frieburgers there is a superstition which says that the mams and spots on the moon's face are the outlines of the traitor, Judas Iscar-iot, Iscar-iot, holding his hand over his face while sneezing just prior to hanging himself. This last belief accords with the old Frankish legend, which sayB that there was no spot on Luna's bright face until after the time of the crucifixion of Christ. Still another story tells us that in the time of the creation God threw an offending angel against the face of the moon, while another is to the effect that the moon witnessed the creation of Adam and Eve and took an impress of their features on his surface, intending to people his own land with similar beings. be-ings. When he essayed to imitate God's works, he made nothing but a slimy serpent, ser-pent, which since that day has continued contin-ued to fold and unfold its mighty coils in full view of the descendants of the God created beings. St. Louis Republic. |