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Betreft: Re: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL)

From:Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>
Date:Monday, March 27, 2000, 8:15
>>> Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> 03/24 11:10 >>>
At 02:37 PM 3/24/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>---------------------- Information from the mail header >----------------------- >Sender: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> >Poster: BP Jonsson <bpj@...> >Subject: Re: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL) >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >At 18:33 21.3.2000 +0000, Fabian wrote: > >while we see teh > >man in the moon, in Japan, they see the rabbit in the moon > >In India it is a rabbit too. Must have wandered east with >Buddhism. Perhaps The Rabbit in the Moon is mentioned somewhere in the >Sutras...
Also in Maya mythology, IIRC. ---> Yes, see: http://www.halfmoon.org The Aztecs too saw a rabbit in the moon, so maybe it's a Meso-American thing Rob