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Chang'e (Chinese: 嫦娥; pinyin: Cháng'é) or Chang-o, originally known as Heng'e,^{[note 1]} is the Chinese goddess of the Moon. She is the subject of several legends in Chinese mythology, most of which incorporate several of the following elements: Houyi the archer, a benevolent or malevolent emperor, an elixir of life, and the Moon. She is married to the archer Houyi. In modern times, Chang'e has been the namesake of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.

Tales[edit]

There are many tales about Chang'e, including a well-known story that is given as the origin of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival.^[1] In a very distant past, ten suns had risen together into the skies and scorched the earth, thus causing hardship for the people.^[1] The archer Yi shot down nine of them, leaving just one sun, and was given the elixir of immortality as a reward.^[1] He did not consume it straight away, but let Chang'e keep it with her, as he did not want to gain immortality without his beloved wife Chang'e.^[1] However, while Yi went out hunting, his apprentice Fengmeng broke into his house and tried to force Chang'e to give him the elixir; she refused and to prevent him from getting it, drank it.^[1] Chang'e then flew upward toward the heavens, choosing the Moon as residence, as she loved her husband and hoped to live nearby him.^[1] Yi discovered what had transpired and felt sad, so he displayed the fruits and cakes that Chang'e had liked, and gave sacrifices to her.^[1]

Chang'e appears in Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West.

Worship[edit]

The recently rediscovered divination text Guicang contains the story of Chang'e as a story providing the meaning to Hexagram 54 of the I Ching, 'Returning Maiden'.^[2]

On Mid-Autumn Festival, the full Moon night of the eighth lunar month, an open-air altar is set up facing the Moon for the worship of Chang'e. New pastries are put on the altar for her to bless. She is said to endow her worshippers with beauty.

Space travel[edit]

Chang'e was mentioned in a conversation between HoustonCAPCOM and the Apollo 11 crew just before the first Moon landing in 1969:

Ronald Evans (CC): Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, is one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-O has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.

Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl.^{[note 2]}

In 2007, China launched its first lunar probe, a robotic spacecraft named Chang'e 1 in the goddess' honour. A second robotic probe, named Chang'e 2, was launched in 2010.^[3] A third Chang'e spacecraft, called Chang'e 3, landed on the Moon on 14 December 2013, making China the third country in the world to achieve such a feat after the former Soviet Union and the United States. The lander also delivered the robotic rover Yutu ('Jade Rabbit') to the lunar surface. On 3 January 2019, Chang'e 4 touched down on the far side of the Moon and deployed the Yutu-2 rover.^[4]

Notes[edit]

1. ^The name Heng'e was changed to Chang'e due to a taboo character from a name of Emperor Wen of Han.
2. ^NASA transcripts had attributed the response to Aldrin (Apollo 11 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Page 179), but corrected NASA transcripts attribute it to Collins (Woods, W. David; MacTaggart, Kenneth D.; O'Brien, Frank. 'Day 5: Preparations for Landing'. The Apollo 11 Flight Journal. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 26 June 2018.)

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefgYang & An 2005, 89-90 & 233.
2. ^Shaughnessy, Edward L. (2014). Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing ( I Ching) and Related Texts. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 154. ISBN0231533306.
3. ^Clark, Stephen (1 October 2010). 'China's second moon probe dispatched from Earth'. Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
4. ^Rivers, Matt (January 3, 2019). 'China lunar rover successfully touches down on far side of the moon, state media announces'. CNN. Retrieved January 3, 2019.

Bibliography[edit]

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• Yang, Lihui; An, Deming (2005). Handbook of Chinese mythology. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. ISBN1-57607-806-X.

Further reading[edit]

• Allan, Tony, Charles Phillips, and John Chinnery, Land of the Dragon: Chinese Myth, Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 2005 (through Barnes & Noble Books), ISBN0-7607-7486-2
• Laing, Ellen Johnston, 'From Thief to Deity: The Pictorial Record of the Chinese Moon Goddess, Chang E' in Kuhn, Dieter & Stahl, Helga, The Presence of Antiquity: Form and Function of References to Antiquity in the Cultural Centers of Europe and East Asia. Wuerzburg, 2001, pp. 437-54. ISBN3927943223

External links[edit]

• Media related to Chang'e at Wikimedia Commons

Notre Dame Legends and Lore / by Dorothy V. Corson

'And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars (Apoc., XII, I). What a beautiful sight! -- one that has never been seen in this country.' -- Sorin

In 1883 the Scholastic described the Virgin Mary's statue in Rome which was the inspiration for Fr. Sorin's statue of the Blessed Virgin on Notre Dame's Golden Dome:

The model of the statue is that adopted by our late Holy Father, Pope Pius IX, in 1854, on the occasion of the solemn proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception [erected by Pius IX in front of the Propaganda College in Piazza di Spagna in Rome]. The material will be of highly polished bronze, sixteen feet in height, the crescent with the serpent beneath, and a starry crown above.' -- Scholastic, 13 October 1883, V. 17, p. 88.

Fulton J. Sheen explains that the Immaculate Conception 'is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. It means that the Virgin Mary, in order to be pure enough to become the mother of Christ, was conceived free from the burden of original sin. Her soul was created in the purest holiness and innocence.'

He goes on to say:

The term is often confused among non-Catholics with the Virgin Birth. But this term has no connection with the Immaculate Conception. Mary had two human parents. The Virgin Birth implies a miracle, namely that Christ was 'conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary.' She had asked the angel Gabriel how she, a virgin, should become the mother of the promised Messiah, and she was told this would be by the power of God (Luke I:34-38). The Roman Catholic Church has always upheld these two articles of faith. -- Fulton J. Sheen, The World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, p. 67

Mary the new Eve

The New Catholic Encyclopedia explains why Mary was referred to as the new Eve which also explains the presence of the serpent, shown at the base of her statue in the photograph below:

. . . The word, 'woman,' aptly portrays Johannine symbolism with regard to Mary's role in giving life to the Life-giver as Adam calls his wife 'Life' (Zwn') in Gn 3.20, because she is the mother of all living, similarly John suppresses Mary's name, calling her simply 'woman' in order to present her as the new Eve, the mother of all whom Jesus loves in the person of 'the disciple whom he loved.' John also never mentions this Disciple's name in order to emphasize his symbolic role. Thus, John proclaims the spiritual motherhood of Mary, the new Eve, with regard to the faithful represented by the beloved disciple. -- The New Catholic Encyclopedia, V. 13, p. 139.

Psalm 91 is consistent with this explanation:

Because you have made the Lord your refuge, the Most High your habitation, no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent. For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.' -- Psalms 91:9-16 RSV.

The Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Immaculate Conception is also consistent with these interpretations:

The person of Mary, in consequence of her origin from Adam, should have been subject to sin, but, being the new Eve who was to be the mother of the new Adam, she was, by the eternal counsel of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. Her redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom. He is a greater redeemer who pays the debt that it may not be incurred, than he who pays after it has fallen on the debtor (Ullathorne, 'Immac. Conception', p. 89). Such is the meaning of the term 'Immaculate Conception'.

. . . No direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture. But the first scriptural passage which contains the promise of the redemption, mentions also the Mother of the Redeemer. The sentence against the first parents was accompanied by the Earliest Gospel (Proto-evangelium), which put enmity between the serpent and the woman: 'and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and her seed; she (he) shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her (his) heel' (Gen., iii, 15). The translation 'she' of the Vulgate is interpretative; it originated in the fourth century ('Katholik', 1893, 425) and cannot be defended critically.' -- The Catholic Encyclopedia, V. VII, p. 675.

Genesis relates the story of Eve and the apple:

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Then the Lord God said to the woman, 'What is this that you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.' The Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. -- Genesis 3:13-14 RSV

Revelation also speaks of Satan and the serpent: 'And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world . . . .' -- Revelation 12:9 RSV

As does the dictionary definition: 'Satan (especially in Christian Theology) the supreme evil spirit; the enemy of goodness and great adversary of God and mankind; the Devil.' -- The World Book Dictionary

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These excerpts from a variety of sources may help explain the significance of these interesting details placed at the base of Sorin's statue of the Blessed Virgin.

Although the electrified crown of stars originally placed on the Virgin Mary's statue on the Dome has since been removed, the crescent moon and the serpent are still there. They were photographed close-up during the recent restoration of the main building by Robert F. Ringel a staff architect, artist and photographer on campus. One can see in these close-up photographs of the base of the statue that Sorin took great care, especially with the serpent portion of the figure, even though that portion would have been invisible to the eye from the ground and is only faintly visible in the first full-length photograph of the statue shown in the beginning.

The World Book Dictionary gives this definition of the crescent new moon displayed at the base of Our Lady's statue which when it was electrified was aglow with light at night, as was the crown of stars in its early days: 'crescent 1. shaped like the moon in its first or last quarter. 2. growing; increasing; developing: There is many a youth Now crescent, who will come to all I am (Tennyson).'

Sorin must have known this definition of the crescent moon at the time and would have considered it an apt description of his New Notre Dame -- 'ever growing; increasing; and developing' far above and way beyond even his own great expectations.

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Whatever the complete and definitive theological reasons for the impressive details at the base of Sorin's grand statue on the Dome of his New Notre Dame, one thing is certain. Sorin went to great lengths to erect a beautiful figure of Our Lady as a fitting expression of gratitude for the graces she had already bestowed upon the university: 'that she might stand upon her magnificent throne, and with extended arms, give the assurance of the continued protection of her whom it represents -- a thing of beauty to rest and shine there, a joy forever.'