The Dhaka Times Desk Man's only planetary companion on Earth is the Moon and man's imaginary large-scale canvas. People's imagination or other feelings around the moon have been involved since the very beginning of creation. Looking at the moon with that imagination, sometimes different shapes are seen.
When the Earth comes between the Moon and the Sun, the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon, which is known as a lunar eclipse. A total lunar eclipse also took place on April 15. The volcanoes and mountains on the moon's chest are covered in darkness, so different shapes appear on the surface of the moon when viewed from Earth. They include a rabbit busy with Hammandista, a man, a pair of hands, a human face, a woman and a tree.
In Western culture this shape seen on the chest of the moon has a wonderful name “The Man in the Moon” means moon people. Based on these insights later H.G. Wells Wrote a popular science fiction novel of the same name. In West Asian cultures, the moon in the sky is seen as a rabbit busy with Hammandista. This culture is especially prevalent in Japan, China and Korea. According to Japanese theory, the rabbit is making rice cakes. But in Chinese and Korean cultures, the rabbit is said to be making the elixir of immortality. European culture shows a bearded man standing with a stick. It has a lot to do with Christianity. In Indian culture, the mother of all good and bad blesses the world with her hands spread wide. In Hawaiian culture, a woman named Hina planted a tree to weave clothes for the moon gods, the tree was named Mahina. That is, wherever you are in the world, you will see some kind of shape.
"When you look at the moon, it's really beautiful, but its mountains, the fiery face will confuse the light, the dark and the gray, creating an illusion," explains Cassandra Ryan, a planetary-stellar geologist. In addition, the shadow of the mountains falls on the plain or on the mountain, it looks like a wave. The lines and colors of the surface of the moon show different shapes to people, some of them are absurd. For example, sometimes you will see Elvis Presley's face on a potato chip or Jesus Christ's face on a sandwich. It is actually a figment of our brain.
"Our brain is a reservoir of mystery, it imagines many things by hearing different sounds or color variations," explains the Harvard University neurologist. Also termed shape, or shape based on color is called in the language of psychology Periodolia. According to psychologist Joel Vose, when our eyes see different objects on the surface of the moon, the color variation, the light variation, then the brain receives that light and presents a real image to the person. The light of the eye goes to the brain, then the brain combines that light with the various objects in its shape and shows the shape of the correct object in front of us. Much like seeing a polar bear in a cloudless sky.
The Demon Haunted World: Science in the Candlelight Dark The famous astronomer in the book Carl Sagan He gave an excellent explanation about the different shapes on the moon's chest, according to him, people have been seeing these shapes on the moon's chest for thousands of years. The shape of the body formed in the human brain by mixing vision with reality has been spread from generation to generation. As a result, this belief has taken a firm place in people's minds. So when we gaze intently at the moon we become enchanted and see our imagination reflected on the surface of the moon. As it happens in the case of a young man in love, seeing the form of his lover on the surface of the moon.
Reference: National Geography
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