Lowell's+Myth

=Why the Moon Changes Shape=

Many years ago the moon was full all the time, never once was it not full. There were ghost-like creatures that walk around Earth and never did anything but that one thing. One day many years ago, one stopped walking. She thought of thinking. She thought. For one month, she never did anything.

When she got up, she walked until she found another ghost-like creature. She stopped him. He got mad, then realized he had never been mad. He had never felt anything. He too was now thinking about everything. They walked for a long amount of time, and they found many more ghost-like creatures throughout the years of walking.

Suddenly, they noticed that the moon was like them, nothing but a random thing. They wanted it. They sat and thought for a month. One walked up and said that there was a metal object flying to the moon soon. They all walked to it and held on to it. When they got to it, they took some of the moon. But they were so light on Earth that they were weightless on the moon. So they flew away with pieces of the moon. But the pieces fell back to it. Today, because they are not together, they fly away again, but they always come back. This is why the moon changes.

These ghost-like creatures are souls that want a body, so they freeze the air around them to feel the body of a human. Have you been walking around on a warm day and felt something cold go by you? That’s them, trying to make friends. So never be scared when you feel them. They have helped much.


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