{"collection":"Astrology","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_astro_ml_ml10_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_astro_ml_ml10_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_astro_ml_ml10_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/astro/ml/ml10.htm","summary":"It is almost time that we should leave this lunar zoology; we will therefore merely present a few creatures which may be of service in a comparative anatomy of the whole subject, and then close the account. There is a story told in the Fiji Islands which so nearly approaches the Hottentot legend of the hare, that they both seem but variations of a common original. In the one case the opponent of the moon's benevolent purpose affecting man's hereafter was a hare, in the other a rat.","tags":["Lunar Folklore","Moon Mythology","Victorian Astronomy Lore"],"text":null,"title":"Moon Lore: Moon Spots: VI. Other Moon Myths","tradition":"Astrology","translated_text":null,"word_count":1251}