When talking about the moon, I would tie in myths into my
classroom. There is a Chinese myth that there were twelve different moons
because there were twelve different months in each year. They believed that
moons were made of water. They also believed there were ten suns because there
were ten days in the Chinese week. They believed there was a mother of all of
this and her name was Heng-o. It was said that she would wash her children in a
lake on the western side of the world and send them one by one on a month’s
journey to the eastern side of the world. Because the moons were thought to be
made with water, they believe that a tortoise or hare lived on the inside of
the moons.
Source: http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/china_culture.html
In Mayan mythology, Ix Chel was the moon goddess. They
assicoated human events with the phases of the moon. Ix Chel had an assistant,
who was a serpent, who carried all of the water of heaven in it’s belly. She
was often depicted with a large jug of water. It was said that would overturn
the jug and send large floods and storms to Earth. Itzamna was the moon God and
Ix Chel’s husband.
Source: http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/Ix_Chel_moon.html
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