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Bulan (Bicolano mythology): son of Dagat and Paros; joined Daga's rebellion; his body became the Moon; [22] in another myth, he was alive and from his cut arm, the earth was established, and from his tears, the rivers and seas were established [23] Haliya (Bicolano mythology): the goddess of the moon, [24] often depicted with a golden mask on ...
The original Proto-Indo-European lunar deity, *Meh₁not appears to have been male, with many possible derivatives including the Homeric figure of Menelaus. [citation needed] Cultures with male moon gods often feature sun goddesses. An exception is Hinduism and Philippine animism featuring both male and female aspects of the solar divine.
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Like many of Khonsu’s manifestations, Khonsu-Neferhotep was venerated as a moon god who traversed the night sky on the lunar bark, journeying between the mythical mountains of Bakhu and Manu. In Egyptian cosmology, these mountains were believed to support the heavens and marked the entry and exit points of the underworld.
Lunar symbolism dominates his iconography. The god is usually shown with the horns of a crescent emerging from behind his shoulders, and he is described as the god presiding over the (lunar) months. [2] Strabo describes Mēn as a local god of the Phrygians. Mēn may also be influenced by the Zoroastrian lunar divinity Mah. [3]
The argument that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a moon god first arose in 1901 in the scholarship of archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He identified Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian deity known as Lah or Hubal, which he called a lunar deity. Modern scholarship has dismissed this notion as unfounded.
A second possible lunar deity worshiped in Ebla was Šanugaru. [17] Due to Yarikh's association with Larugardu, it has additionally been argued that the god Hadabal (d NI.DA.KUL), who was worshiped there in the third millennium BCE, had lunar character, [9] but this conclusion is not universally accepted. [16]