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Try your luck at a cross word puzzle

Across
1) They believed the Earth would get sick and die. (9)
5) They believed a jaguar ate the moon. (4)
6) _________covered the sun as there was so many of them. (5)
7) He swallowed the moon. (6)
10) June ‘s moon name.(14)
13) Anningan disappears for how long ?(5)
Down
2) Food god made food from her _________________ (12)
3) They lived in the Amazon. (10)
4) How to kill a werewolf. (12)
8) March ‘s moon name. (8)
9) Cold Moon.(8)
10) The Chinese chased it away with drums. (5)
11) Bleeding moon caused_______ on earth. (3)
12) Chinese believed a _____lived in the moon. (4)

Full Moon Names

Month	Moon name	Why that name?
January	Wolf Moon	Hungry wolf packs howled at night
February	Snow Moon	Heaviest snowfalls during the winter
March	Worm Moon	Start of spring as the earthworms began to appear
April	Pink Moon	An early spring flower called “moss pink” appeared
May	Flower Moon	Many types of flowers bloom in May
June	Strawberry Moon	Strawberries were ready to be picked and eaten
July	Buck Moon	New antlers of buck deer began to form
August	Sturgeon Moon	A large fish was easily caught in the Great lakes this time of year
September	Harvest Moon	Farmers harvested until after sunset by the light of the moon
October	Hunter’s Moon	Hunters tracked and killed prey by moonlight for the winter
November	Beaver Moon	Set traps for beavers before the swamps froze to get fur for the winter
December	Cold Moon	The cold winter sets in

Moon Maniacs

Stirling Primary School
Grade 5
Mrs Malherbe’s class

Moon Maniacs

Eclipse mythology

Lunar eclipse
Date: 3-4 March 2007
Place: various

Solar eclipse
Date: 29 March 2006
Place: Turkey

MYTHS

Myths of the eclipse of the moon
The Eclipse dragon
The Chinese and the Indians thought a snake attacked the sun during an eclipse. Making a noise by beating drums and shooting fire arrows into the sky were ways of chasing away the snake.
Eclipse Omens
Eclipses have been seen as evil omens when seen changed the course of wars. An eclipse in 585B.C. caused 5 years of fighting to end between the Medes and Lydian's.
Bleeding Moon
Ancient people believed that the moon was bleeding during a lunar eclipse and that it meant some real horrific event was going to take place on Earth like war!
More Explanations
The Maya believed a Jaguar ate the moon and that it would come down to Earth and eat people too.

Rahula is dark blue with a raven head as one of his nine heads. He has a face in his tummy and the mouth swallows the moon or the sun.
The Egyptians claim that Seth stole the eye of Horus during an eclipse. Thoth would search in the darkness and restore the eye in the sky. They also believed eclipses were associated with the outbreak of illness. They also feared that the earth would get sick and die.
Myths about the moon
Chinese
The Chinese believed that there were 12 moons for the 12 months of the year and 10 suns as they had 10 days in a week. Their mother Heng-O would wash her children In a lake in the western side of the sky and they would then ride a chariot for a month to the eastern side of the sky. They believe a frog lives in the moon.
Mamaiurans
They lived in the Amazon and in the beginning of time there were so many birds that they blocked out the light form the sun and the people lived in darkness. They feared the wild animals and wanted to talk to the king of the birds to share some daylight. Two brothers hid in a dead animal and caught the bird and he had to make an agreement . They would share the light and alternate with day and night.
Japanese
Tsuki-Yomi was the moon god and his sister Amaterasu the sun god. She sent him to the food god one to collect food for her. The food god offered him a meal created form her mouth and nose. He was so disgusted that he killed her. When his sister heard of what he did she didn’t want to see him again and that is why the day always follows the night.
Inuit
They live in Greenland and their moon god is Anningan. He chases his sister The sun god across the sky and forgets to eat. He gets thinner and then disappears for 3 days and then returns full to chase her again. (phases of the moon) She wants to stay away from her brother and that is why the set a different times.
Werewolf
A man is transformed into a wolf in nature under the influence of a full moon. He is only active at night and then eats babies and dead bodies. Werewolfs can only be killed with an silver object, like sliver bullets or arrows. When he dies he returns to his human form.
Next month!!!!!!!
Find out who the Man in the Moon really is.