Vessel

I was reading this article and it referenced the creation of our moon. It said that our current moon was formed when a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth and send the huge debris that became our moon into orbit.

The first thing that came to my mind was the creation story, of how woman was created out of a part of man, and how people have traditionally associated the moon with women. 

Of course, the comparison ends there, because the crash actually created two moons, and then the moons crashed into each other, and the moon was probably more tied to the menstrual cycle than its creation of women as a part of man.

***Update! One of my friends on facebook added this comment: Actually I am going to take shaman out of it all together. There are comparisons in some earlier Pre-Judeo-Christian to Lilith as a second dark moon. More tribal Judaism. It’s a reference that a lot of modern earth-centered religions have adopted.

Always glad of a multi-theological perspective in making religious meaning out of natural events!