The Rabbit in the Moon: A Sky Story Shared Around the World
The Rabbit in the Moon: A Sky Story Shared Around the World
What do you see when you look at the full Moon?
Some people see a face. But across many parts of Asia and the Americas, people have looked at the Moon’s light and dark markings and imagined something very different... a rabbit.
In this first episode of our new series, Sky Stories: Wonder Written in the Stars, we follow the Moon rabbit through Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, and Nahua traditions. Although each culture looked up at the same Moon, the rabbit they saw was doing something different.
In Chinese folklore, the Jade Rabbit lives…
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