| rdfs:comment | - He has a man's face with a full beard and wrinkles and a jolly expression. It was he who suggested to Queen Lulea that the Fairies give their Magic Cloak to the first unhappy person they met. (Queen Zixi of Ix)
- In Middle-earth folklore the Man in the Moon is described as being an old being who secretly hid on the island of the Moon, and built his minaret there. Combined with the Elven lore, as presented in the legendarium of The Silmarillion, the Man in the Moon of the Hobbits' tales must have his origins in the legend of Tilion the Maia. This is alluded to further in Tolkien's Roverandom, where the Man in the Moon also lives in a Minaret. In The Book of Lost Tales, his name is given as Uolë Kúvion, but the tale of how he came to live there was never fully told.
- The Man in the Moon was a figure from eriadorian Folklore.He was probably based on Tilion or Uole Kúvion.
- Name: Man In The Moon Run Time: 4:41 Written By: Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Billy Sherwood, Chris Squire, Alan White Year: 1997
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- He is the leader and founder of the Guardians. Though Manny never makes an actual appearance in the film, he seems to be a wise and benevolent immortal being. It is implied that he can predict the future. During the 18th century, Manny revived a young man named Jackson Frost who had drowned while saving his younger sister. Jackson was reborn as the winter spirit, Jack Frost. Though Jack was frightened at first, the sight of the moon calmed him, he heard Manny's voice telling him his name.
- A longstanding European tradition holds that the man was banished to the moon for some crime. Christian lore commonly held that he is the man caught gathering sticks on the sabbath and sentenced by God to death by stoning in the book of Numbers XV.32–36. Some Germanic cultures thought he was a man caught stealing from a neighbor's hedgerow to repair his own. There is a Roman legend that he is a sheep-thief. One medieval Christian tradition claims him as Cain, the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. The Indian moon god is Chandra.
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| abstract | - He has a man's face with a full beard and wrinkles and a jolly expression. It was he who suggested to Queen Lulea that the Fairies give their Magic Cloak to the first unhappy person they met. (Queen Zixi of Ix)
- In Middle-earth folklore the Man in the Moon is described as being an old being who secretly hid on the island of the Moon, and built his minaret there. Combined with the Elven lore, as presented in the legendarium of The Silmarillion, the Man in the Moon of the Hobbits' tales must have his origins in the legend of Tilion the Maia. This is alluded to further in Tolkien's Roverandom, where the Man in the Moon also lives in a Minaret. In The Book of Lost Tales, his name is given as Uolë Kúvion, but the tale of how he came to live there was never fully told.
- A longstanding European tradition holds that the man was banished to the moon for some crime. Christian lore commonly held that he is the man caught gathering sticks on the sabbath and sentenced by God to death by stoning in the book of Numbers XV.32–36. Some Germanic cultures thought he was a man caught stealing from a neighbor's hedgerow to repair his own. There is a Roman legend that he is a sheep-thief. One medieval Christian tradition claims him as Cain, the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. John Lyly says in the prologue to his Endymion (1591), "There liveth none under the sunne, that knows what to make of the man in the moone." Some early texts are cautionary and stress the severity of the Man in the Moon’s punishment by emphasizing its long duration or his physical isolation. However despite this, he is often depicted as quite easily observing and even communicating with characters on earth. For example, in Queen Zixi of Ix, Queen Lulea effortlessly interacts with him merely by gazing up at him and having a conversation as if he were only a short distance away. Similarly, in an illustration accompanying “A Message to Mother Goose,” the Man in the Moon, while still sitting on the moon, is close enough to the Man so Wondrous Wise as to even place his hand on him while they talk. Despite his supposedly eternal banishment, imposed by God Himself according to many stories, the Man in the Moon nevertheless visits the earth quite frequently and with relative ease. In L. Frank Baum’s story “The Man in the Moon,” he visits earth by sliding down a moonbeam, and in the famous nursery rhyme, he literally tumbles from the moon to land on earth without any noteworthy ill effect. In fact, the only injury he is described as sustaining is his burning himself eating earthly food. (However, Mother Goose’s Melodies depicts a different character, “The man in the south,” as the one who burns himself, and in Five Mice in a Mouse‐Trap, the Man in the Moon states that the nursery rhyme story is apocryphal anyway.) In “The Lumber Room,” he has no problem visiting earth repeatedly for long intervals, so long as he returns nightly because lighting up the moon is his responsibility, something that apparently would not occur were he not there. He also makes an impromptu visit to earth just to help Piggy escape from prison in “Tito’s Home‐made Picture‐Book,” and he is later able to attend the wedding ceremony in The Marriage of Jack and Jill. The appearance of the Man in the Moon varies greatly in public‐domain works, depending in part on whether it is the perception of his face or of his figure in the moon that serves as inspiration. He is sometimes depicted merely as a full or crescent moon with a face but is also sometimes depicted as a normal man; in between those two extremes is a range of more‐or‐less humanoid interpretations with varying degrees of moonlike face. He is often depicted carrying either an alcoholic beverage, presumably claret, or carrying the thorn bush or bundle of sticks that originally led to his banishment, along with a lantern that represents the moonlight. He is sometimes accompanied by his dog, which can also be seen in the moon’s surface features in some interpretations. A few sources refer to him only as the Moon, blurring the distinction between the moon itself and the man therein, and in The Marriage of Jack and Jill, he has the name Mr. Maninmoon. In Egyptian mythology, the god Iah, whose name means ‘Moon’, is the deified moon, but the more prominent gods Thoth and Khonsu were lunarized and thus also became moon gods. Other Near Eastern moon gods include Kaskuh or Kusuh (Anatolian), Nanna or Sin (Mesopotamian) and Yarikh (Levantine), and the Turkic moon god is Ay Ata. There is also a Talmudic tradition that the image of Jacob is engraved on the moon, although no such mention appears in the Torah. The Indian moon god is Chandra. In Chinese mythology, the goddess Chang'e is stranded upon the moon after foolishly consuming a double dose of an immortality potion. She is accompanied by a small group of moon rabbits. The Chinese also have Wu Gang, a man eternally punished on the moon, as well as the god Yue Lao, the “old man under the moon,” and the Japanese have a moon god named Tsukuyomi. In some traditions, the characters who are visible on the moon are not the same as the moon god, but rather have been placed there by him. In Norse mythology, Máni is the male personification of the moon who crosses the sky in a horse and carriage. He is continually pursued by the Great Wolf Hati who catches him at Ragnarok. The name Máni simply means Moon. Máni is a male god in nearly every source, but in “Jack and Jill: A Scandinavian Myth,” is portrayed as a motherly female and is called “queen of the moon.” In the Prose Edda, Máni takes the children Hiuki and Bil (the Norse Jack and Jill) to be eternally on the moon, and so it is they who are visible from earth rather than Máni. In Haida mythology, the figure represents a boy gathering wood, who was taken up from the earth by the Moon as a punishment for disrespect. There are a number of different tales in Maori mythology about Rona, who is sometimes portrayed as a lunar deity and sometimes as the human brought to the moon by such a deity (and is described as male in some stories and female in others). The Cook Islanders have a moon god named Marama.
- The Man in the Moon was a figure from eriadorian Folklore.He was probably based on Tilion or Uole Kúvion.
- Name: Man In The Moon Run Time: 4:41 Written By: Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Billy Sherwood, Chris Squire, Alan White Year: 1997
* Essentially Yes
- He is the leader and founder of the Guardians. Though Manny never makes an actual appearance in the film, he seems to be a wise and benevolent immortal being. It is implied that he can predict the future. During the 18th century, Manny revived a young man named Jackson Frost who had drowned while saving his younger sister. Jackson was reborn as the winter spirit, Jack Frost. Though Jack was frightened at first, the sight of the moon calmed him, he heard Manny's voice telling him his name.
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