Re: CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL)
From: | Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> |
Date: | Friday, March 24, 2000, 22:10 |
At 02:37 PM 3/24/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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>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
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>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.