European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Off Maiden ind such by Jorie Sieloff a staff writer vp7hen the receiving line forms Init Welcome the first curl hum to the Moon it might include a Rabbit n Klc of Lovely Maidens a Cul and a Wood 7 s cameras caught none of these and even the russians Don claim to have seen them but centuries old legends say they Are there. Since the beginning of time the human race has regarded the Moon with fear and fascination. The yellow disc has inspired poets from Shakespeare to tin pan Alley. The heavenly body is All tied up with primitive tribal dances Nursery rhymes Pagan worship and modern superstition. Through the centuries ii has symbolized contradictory forces Good and evil life and death male Ana female. If the first Man to the Moon finds nothing but nothingness it will be the death of Many delightful South Pacific islanders Accord ing to Caplin Cook imagined the Moons a Lush country in which White winged doves carried seeds which sprang int Groves of fruit Trees. To the Earth s satellite was not merely a geographic location it often had a real Australia the Moon was regarded As a mischievous being who flitted about the universe causing Trou ble. In a particularly Pesky mood on Day he swallowed the Sun god so the Story goes causing the first eclipse. As Troy urls Indian legend tells it the heavenly Symbol of Romance is really the Home of an Indian Maiden. Banished from Earth because of her constant complaining she spends All her time weaving a forehead band. Once a month she slops Long enough to stir a Kettle of Belling Hominy and her cat unravels All her work thus she is condemned Lowe ave forever knowing Shell never finish her task As is often the Case a shrewish Wom an started the whole thing according to the cd Luchas. The ancestors of the colombian tribe were Savages the Story goes until Bochl Ca a tall bearded Wise Man. Came into their lives. He taught them to till the ground make clothes Revere he gods and live in organize communities. Use was smooth and Clyl lazed except for the frequent outbursts of to Cauca s wife Chia a Beautiful but wicked woman who tried to undo Allis Good deeds. One Day she flew into a rage flooded the Hio Bogota and tub merged most of the Earth. It was the final blow. Bachica batched Chia to the heavens where she became the Moon. The eskimos say that today s Moon gamers can be grateful for the bad tem per of a magician who lived Long ago. He made a trip to the sky to create the Sun one Day and took with him his sister who had begged to go some reason he became angry with her and burned the Side of her face wit the Sun. Angry and humiliated she ran away to become the for the Man in the Moon a figure familiar to All children in the Western world there Are several explanations of his German Story tells of an old Man who Cul Sticks in the Forest on a passerby reproached bin for working on the Day of rest the Wood Cutter replied sunday on Earth or monday in heaven it s All the same the stranger s retort was then Bear your bundle forever and a you value not sunday on Earth yours shall be a perpetual Moon Day in heaven. You shall stand for All eternity As a warning to All Sabbath Breakers and there he remains to this Day the bundle of Sticks still on his Back. If Only a fraction of the creatures said to reside on the Moon really do the astronauts might belter be anthropologists. One of the most famed residents Isth Rabbit sent there by Buddha. The Prophet was wandering through the for est one Day lost and hungry when he met a Rabbit who said if Thau Art hungry Light u fire kill and roast Buddha mud a fire and the to his word jumped in. Overcome by the sacrifice Buddha rescued in animal Al the last minute and using his magic Power placed him on the Moon to live forever. Along with the thousands of legend about the Moon there have developed superstitions Many of which continue to carry weight today. In ancient Rome Farmers religiously followed this Rule when you want something to grow or increase tend to it during the waxing Moon when you warn something to dry cure or decrease without decay tend tit during the waning Moon if something is to remain unchanged do it during the dark of the Moon. The theory eventually became broader until it was gradually discerned that lunar phases actually do influence Man areas of life. The association of the Moon with health both mental an physical is timeless. Hippocrates him self recommended that no physician ignorant of astronomy be entrusted with the treatment of disease. And of course the theory that exerts a Strong pull on men s minds has survive through the Ages contributing among other things the word Lunatic to the English language. The most famous science fiction writer Jules Verne presented his vision of the lunar landscape one could see everywhere and always the geological works of nature never the work of Man. If there exist representatives of the animal kingdom on the Moon they mus have fled to those unfathomable cavities which the Eye cannot , legend and folklore May he in for a Jolt when eur Lhman reaches the Moon. Fog 12 the Stak and stripes Crl Nom it a couple of american trom will Lake the project gemini fam Craft up Early next year and tout Italy. In three orbits of the Earth it i Miles an hour Virgil i. Out urls und John w. Young will Fly toe sealer spacecraft backward Fermi sideways and upside Down. During five hour ride they will test every i Tern the ship has for propulsion and support Olip outer space. It All goes Well then comes hottest. Astronaut Edward Whit James Mcdevitt will take of of up and orbit the Earth for five dam far the longest any americana turn in orbit. After that missions i crease to seven Dayt. Then 14. And late in this decade May come the i on the Moon landings to which the Tinl experiments Are pointed. Far actual Moon ride called project a the astronaut will at them spaceship now being developed Fobe much larger than the gemini Al Ca s largest spacecraft to Date. On some Early gemini flights Itro Nauta will link up with other Muel Llla and will Hep our de ing spacecraft to test the i their space Sulu to protect than 100 Miles in Pace. Grossom 98-year-old air fore who made a 15-minute Subora Bull Cury flight and had to swim for i when he capsule Sank on Landl be commander on the tint Likht. Unless the russians Send u of their Early cosmonauts in the time Grossom will become tin Man to rocket twice into space. Young. 33-year-old Navy , will be co Pilot they thursday m
