Even deeper in the lunar mythology rabbit hole:
There are ancient Greek sources that claim that the Fair Helen came from the Moon.
According to them, Moon people were fifteen times larger than us and laid eggs instead of giving birth. And since Helen came from an egg, she had to be a Moon woman.
Please readjust your Iliad retellings to include an 80-foot tall lunar Helen accordingly.
@TarkabarkaHolgy You’d think she could have saved a lot of bother and unnecessary horse-building by stepping over the fabled walls of Troy and propelling herself home on a trireme.
@TarkabarkaHolgy being 80 feet tall must have made it easier to launch all those ships.
@llewelly @TarkabarkaHolgy Makes so much more sense, doesn’t it? For a face to launch that many ships in an era without mass media would normally take a small army of odists, painters, mosaic artists, and messengers. But if she’s 80 feet tall the face is visible for miles! Much more efficient!
@winissen @TarkabarkaHolgy I was thinking an 80 foot tall woman could launch ships just by giving the first 2 or 3 a good swift kick. The rest would launch of their own accord.
@winissen @TarkabarkaHolgy
the real reason Odysseus didn't come home for 10 years was that he was afraid he'd get another good swift kick (which he so richly deserved) from said 80 foot tall woman.
@TarkabarkaHolgy
The Man in the Moon is a rabbit to the Chinese..
But it's a hare to ancient Celts in Ireland, possibly because there were no rabbits till the Normans brought them in the 12th C.
The Romans probably kept rabbits in Britain, but the rabbit wasn't established till the Normans brought them.
I know you didn't mean a literal rabbit hole.
Scary Helen.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Helen went to Egypt and her cloud hologram went to Troy., so she could be any size. Arriving in two eggs with her brothers and sisters in Sparta is very Kryptonian. Bits of the eggshell hang still in the acropolis. The Spartan secret police were called krypteia. At 12 boys wore only a red cloak.
The Greeks learnt from the Egyptians that the moon had not always been there. But that's another tale.
@TarkabarkaHolgy this is news to me! 