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From: HUXTABLE@kuhub.cc.ukans.EDU (Kathryn Huxtable)
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Subject: Re: Sex and gender of Sun and Moon
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Date: 20 Jun 89 07:38:31 GMT
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In article <18183@paris.ics.uci.edu>, tittle@ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle) writes:
[Well, it wasn't me, it was someone else...  --Cindy]
In article <SHELMREI.89Jun13101937@hades.nmsu.edu> shelmrei@nmsu.edu
  (Stephen Helmreich) writes:

>>A friend of mine did a small study of various mythologies and reported
>>to me that overwhelmingly the deity of the sun was male and that of
>>the moon was female.  
>>
>>The only exception I've found is in Tolkien's "Silmarillion" where the
>>Vala in charge of the sun is female and that of the moon is male.  

I would also add that Amaterasu, the solar diety in Japan's Shinto
religion is female.  This is who the imperial line is supposed to be
descended from.

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Kathryn Huxtable
huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu