The Gwich’in narrative of “The Boy in the Moon” tells the story of how the face of the Moon came to be seen as it is today in the skies over the Gwich’in homeland in the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. This article uses the methodology of “comparative ethnoastronomy” to explore the story of “The Boy in the Moon” and its place in Gwich’in culture to inform on a Babylonian tradition of a Lion Man in the Moon. The study makes use of a wide variety of documentary evidence ranging in time from millenniaold cuneiform tablets from Babylonia to modern works on the anthropology of the Gwich’in and interviews with tribal elders, and it concludes with some thoughts on the shared human experience of looking at the sky.

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月亮中的格威辛男孩与巴比伦天文学

格威奇在“月球中的男孩”的故事讲述了一个故事，讲述了如今在加拿大北极和阿拉斯加的格威奇国土上空如何出现月亮的样子。本文使用“比较民族天文学”的方法论来探讨“月球男孩”的故事及其在格威奇文化中的地位，以介绍巴比伦关于月球狮子人的传统。这项研究利用了各种各样的文献证据，时间从从巴比伦的一千年的楔形文字片到关于格威辛人类学的现代著作以及对部落长老的采访，都以对人类共同的看相经验的思考作为总结。在天空。