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From: randolph@sun.com (Randolph Fritz)
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Subject: Re: Sex and gender of Sun and Moon
Summary: Also Finland
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Date: 21 Jun 89 01:03:26 GMT
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In Finnish mythology (which Tolkien drew on -- "vala" is Finnish) the
sun is female & the moon is male.  There are probably others.  I
suspect that the mythologies most easily available to English-speakers
have the sun as male & the moon as female because those are the
mythologies which we feel comfortable with.

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