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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4553800, member: 93416&quot;]Nothing much in &quot;Golden Bough&quot; but Robert Graves (White Goddess) has a bunch of comments on Hares - for instance that Leviticus and Pliny say it was taboo to eat them, and that Boedicea took one into battle.&nbsp; (He also says they were sacred to the triple goddess - but he says that about near everything).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow - I looked because - as some will know - people in the far east do not see a man-in-the-moon but a hare-in-the-moon.&nbsp; And that does apparently show up on some rather scarce Mongol Il-Khan dirhems.&nbsp; Less noticed is that it seems to crop up as a mark on Magadha/Mauryan PMCs too.</p><p><br /></p><p>But maybe that is just an eastern way of looking at things - that never came west?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS&nbsp; As on (nearly) everything - wiki is helpful - see &quot;hare&quot; and &quot;moon-rabbit&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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