Ometochtli / the Rabbit-in-the-Moon

I’m told that ancient Central American people saw a rabbit, not a man in the moon; and that said rabbit was also an image of the deity representing drunkenness or the brewing of pulque, the ancient precursor to one of my favorite spirits, tequila.

I stared at images of the moon for hours looking to find the shape of a rabbit, and this is what I came up with.

(circa 2011)

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