Why 'the Wolf and the Moon'?

I was racking my brains all saturday about what to name my blog... Luckily... inspiration came not too long after... the lunar eclipse...

very random... but that's how my blog is going to be too.... :p random...


This blogging idea was born on the same day that the lunar eclipse occurred... It's not too rare a phenomena... considering it happens twice every year... haha but it was a rare occassion that I was actually watching it... and with friends... Thus... here I pay tribute to this...

In Norse mythology... Vikings spoke of a wolf called Hati, who when chases mani the moon... a shadow would be cast over it. People would make lotsa noise especially when the moon turn red... to frighten Hati away... to save the moon.

There was another gruesome tale about how the 'blood moon' came about... A man with 12 wives was said to be the moon. He had many vicious animals (lions, bears and snakes) as pets. One day... when he did not have enough to feed his pets, they turned against him and basically mauled him. He was bleeding all over... thus the reddish colour of the moon. One of his wives, frog, came to his rescue and beat the pets away. They wives then tended to his wounds and 'cleaned' him up... thus the end of the eclipse and the disappearance of the reddish tinge.

http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/lunar-2003/eclipse7.html

I thought it was against my feminist principles to call my blog the man with 12 wives...

So... The Wolf and the moon... I like my blog title... haha a little like names of English pubs (think... frog and parrot, fox and duck... :p but hey...