Re: VMs: The Sun, The Moon and The Stars

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ted Young <tyoung1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Wow, this manuscript really does tease you. 

Welcome to the club :-)

> Funny, huh?  One of the strangest features of this
> text is repetition of words up to five times.  

I think the record is four repeats of the same
word, one instance somewhere in the bio section.
Also 3-time repeats are still quite rare.
 
> One thing to note: the sun is personified as a
> woman, and the moon is
> personified as a man.  What religions considered the
> sun female and the moon
> male?  Most of the mythology I can remember
> identifies the sun as male.

Well, at least in the German language the Sun
is feminine and the Moon masculine...
Opposite from French (and I guess most if not
all Romance languages).

Cheers, Rene

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