Why is the Sun a he , and the Moon a she ?

[UndertheOcean]

the opposite seems more natural.

[KamaAina]

1. Agreed.

I know her personally... :loveya:

[Ptah]

2. How about Mother Nature and Father Time?

What's up with that?

:shrug:

[Iggo]

3. Ew.

I was just thinking about The Man In The Moon.

[pokerfan]

4. They aren't always

In Norse mythology, Sol rode through the sky on her chariot, pulled by two horses. Sól also was called Sunna, from which are derived the words, sun and Sunday.

[sarge43]

5. Probably the connection between the phases of the moon

and the menstrual cycle - both a month.

[EndersDame]

6. Ancient Women noticed the correlation between the moon cylce and the menstrual cycle

One of my friends tracks her cycle with a lunar calendar

[Curtland1015]

7. The sun gets paid 20% more for doing the same job.

:D

[MorningGlow]

8. Yin and Yang

Male energy is often thought of as more forceful, more fiery, more direct (symbolized by the line or the sword sword) like the sun's energy, and female energy is often though of as more ruminative, peaceful, and introspective (symbolized by the circle or the bowl or the chalice), like the coolness of the moon. There's much more to it, but that's the simplest explanation.

[madmom]

9. Mother Earth, Father Sky, Sister Moon, Brother Wind

[Ivan Sputnik]

10. the Man in the Moon?

I don't think the moon is always considered female.

[quakerboy]

11. Because

The sun is all showy and oppressive and the moon is beautiful and subtle?

[WinkyDink]

12. Let's see; big, bold object with a smaller, reflective one. Hmmm....

The lunar cycle of 28 days = menstrual cycle.

[Odin2005]

13. The influence of Graeco-Roman Mythology.

Helios, Selene.

In other Germanic languages, such as German and Icelandic, the Sun in feminine and the Moon is masculine. But English lost grammatical gender and so became influenced by Graeco-Roman mythology when it came to personification of the Sun and Moon.

[Mojambo]

14. Why does the opposite seem more natural? n/t