is there really a man in the moon?

Answer 1

LOL!!
I love this! I am Spanish with a touch of Indian in me and I can tell you that my Mother, Father, Grandmother, and Grandfather and all the Great's had stories to tell about 'The Man in the Moon'!
One of the stories, and this one was told for many years because it would keep the hunters of old believing they were not alone on those long hunting trips, was passed down to my own children.
The man in the moon was a great hunter and supplied food for the whole of his tribe. When he became sick and was near death his tribe prayed that the Gods would please save their beloved hunter. It is said a great bird flew down scooped the hunter up into it's beak and soared up into the night sky. The Gods told the people that the great hunter would only live, and live forever, on the greatest hunting space in the stars, the moon! Now, the man in the moon watches over all hunters and guides them with the light of the moon to keep them safe!
The other story, which I hate, is said to have been given to bad little kids if they didn't behave! A very evil man who was hated by everyone he knew, tortured the children in a small village in Spain. The people were so afraid of this man they never spoke to him or of him until the day he disapeared. It is said that the people of this village were done being afraid and attended a special meeting in the local church. They lit candles to God and prayed that God would have mercy on them and take away this very bad man. The next day the bad man was gone! The people didn't see him in his normal spots and daily trips to the bakers and decided to go to his home to find him. The only thing they found was a note laying atop a pile of gray ash on his dinning room table. The note said "I have gone to live on the moon! So that you believe what I am telling you the gray ash is moon dust! Now, I will beable to torture your children and you will not be able to stop me! At night I will watch for bad little girls and boys and when their parents aren't watching I will snatch them up and bring them to the moon! You will never see them again!"
There was no signature, but the the village people were so frightened they believed every word written on that paper! They refused to allow their children outside alone at night for fear that 'The Man in the Moon' would capture them and take them away forever!
I hated this story when I was a girl but I thought you would enjoy the old wives tails handed down to me. There truely is 'No man in the moon' but it is wonderful to think, as a child, that there might be!
Good Luck
Blessed Be

Answer 2

There are various explanations as to how there came to be a man in the Moon.

One tradition, both Christian and Jewish, claims him as Cain, the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. Dante's Inferno[1] alludes to this:

"For now doth Cain with fork of thorns confine
On either hemisphere, touching the wave
Beneath the towers of Seville. Yesternight
The moon was round."

This is mentioned again in his Paradise[2]:

But tell, I pray thee, whence the gloomy spots
Upon this body, which below on earth
Give rise to talk of Cain in fabling quaint?”

There is also a Talmudic tradition that Jacob is on the moon, although no such mention appears in the Bible.

John Lyly says in the prologue to his Endymion (1591), "There liveth none under the sunne, that knows what to make of the man in the moone."

Answer 3

It is natural for the human brain to try and make recognisable shapes out of what it sees. There are certainly light and dark patches on the moon that form a vague face shape. This is the man in the Moon. Have a look yourself and see if you can spot him. Not everybody sees him.

Answer 4

Yes, there are Moon People. They have bases with telescopes watching us all the time. They do not want us to come back to the moon and they are worried about it.

Answer 5

no there isnt its just craters that from a distance it looks like a man in the moon but there isnt i have been up there

Answer 6

i am the man on the moon, after 8 tins of stella and a large one, I AM HIM, THE MAN ON THE MOON..............

Answer 7

It is :-)

Look at the Moon and you'll see it has a face!

Answer 8

Yeah he's living off all the cheese. Why else would there be craters? It's because he likes to take chunks of cheese before he goes to sleep. I wonder if he has nytmares? lmao. x

Answer 9

of course not silly.
thats just a phrase because when you look at a full moon it looks like there are face like features.

Answer 10

What a rediculous question, of course there is no man on the moon...................the women killed them all!