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The
Myth of the hare-in-the-moon is almost universal and goes back to ancient
times. The hare is always an attribute of lunar deities and can symbolize
fertility. The hare was important to early Britons; Boadicea would release a
hare at the beginning of each new campaign against the Romans. In nature
today hares can be seen, as indeed they would have been by the ancients,
silhouetted against the evening sky line in this very 'moon-gazing pose. Our
moon-gazing hare is of Chinese origin, gazing at what he see's as his
ancient ancestor the moon.
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