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Questions


1. Give me 2 native american nicknames for the Full Moon.(1 point for each nickname, 2 total)

2. Who is the goddess of the Moon (in roman version)?(1 point)

3. Name 3 different god/desses of the moon and the origins. (3 different cultures/ 1 point each, 3 total)

4. When Alan Sheppard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball and drove it how far awaay?(2 points)

5. Moon is not a planet but...a __________ of the Earth (fill in the blank/ 1 point)

6. In some cultures, the rainbow are believed to have 6 to 7 bridges.. What is the reason for that?(1 point)

7. One culture believe that the rainbow only have 4 colors 0 blue, green, red, and yellow. All of which are related to the four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire. Name that culture.(1 point)

8. Rainbows have also been used to predict good hunting or sailing weather. Give me two quotes that is commonly used by hunters and fishermans.(4 points for both quotes, 2 for one)

9. Other groups of people, though, were terrified of rainbows. Tell me why Zulus was terrified of the rainbows.(3 points)

10. What is the definition of Rainbow?(2 points)

11. Can you reach the end of the rainbow?(1 point)

12. Can two people see the same rainbow?(1 point)

13. Describe the moon rainbow to me. (1 point)

14. Those who are blessed with its sight receive great blessings from Moon in form a waterfall of light descending from the lunar rainbow. They receive four lunar attributes: (list those 4 attributes/ 1 point per attribute, 4 total)

15. Post a picture of moon rainbow (3 points)

Total Possible Points - 30

1. Harvest Moon and Flower Moon

2. Diana (after of course being the goddess of the hunt and childbirth)

3. Artemis - Greek, Ix Chel - Maya, Selene or Luna - Greek ((remember the Greek Goddess of the moon was threefold maiden, crone and mother))

4. the first one didnt go very far... “Miles and miles and miles.” - Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, after connecting with his second golf ball on the moon.

5. Satellite

6. To connect the heavens and the earth

7. Dogon of West Africa and Islam

8. "A rainbow in the eve: put thine head in the sheave, a rainbow in the morrow; go take thy bow, and arrow," and "A rainbow in the morning is the sailor's warning; a rainbow at night is the sailor's delight,"

9. Zulus thought that a rainbow was an enormous supernatural serpent

10. A rainbow is a curved band of many colors across the sky. It is formed when the white light from the sun passes through raindrops and is broken up into light rays of many different colors.

11. no because it is light reflecting

12. no because of how the light reflects off the water

13. A rainbow is produced when sunlight is refracted through water droplets - A similar effect is produced when moon light refracts through ice crystals.

14.
* Light: The blessed ones can ask for the help to sacred lights if they are in shadows and darkness.
* Rebirth: As the Moon reborn in the skies each month, the blessed ones revive after death. However, they only revive as Moon-related animals, like deers, does, bulls , mares and swans. Anyways, they can use its form of animal spirits to protect their offspring, and to talk them in dreams.
* Lunar joy: When a blessed one is under Moon light, it losses himself in pleasant dreams and colorful fantasies. This sacred pleasure restore health and force of the blessed ones.
* Inspiration: The blessed ones become very talented writers and poets.

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Over!

Congrads Wynter ^_^