Monday, September 12, 2016
Lunoleth
Listening to KBS's weekly program on Korean culture and tradition. In connection with the harvest holiday Chuseok, they're discussing the image of the moon as a rabbit pounding rice in a mortar.
WHAT?
Brain explosion! BLAMO!
Maybe the delta-shock was sharp because I recently posted and focused on a set of 1895 Emoonicons. The Emoonicons are instantly understandable to Euros because we only see the moon as a human face.
Looking it up, the rabbit turns out to be universal among Orientals AND among the original American tribes who share genes with Orientals.
Different tribes developed different stories about the rabbit's activities and intentions, but it's always a rabbit on that side of the geneworld.
So the rabbit, or more precisely the neurons that enable you to see the rabbit, came before the separate languages and cultures of China and Japan and Peru.
What do Africans see in the moon? To some extent but not exclusively, they see a frog.
Is this the most basic way of distinguishing ethnic groups? Facemoon People, Rabbitmoon People, Frogmoon People. No way to test the hypothesis, even with separated twins. By the time you know what frogs and rabbits are, you've absorbed the ambient culture's story about the moon as well.
Labels: Grand Blueprint, Leth
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