Why are there few (almost no) references to the moon in ancient myths?

Because the ancients created myths and were regarded as gods by later generations.

The moon is not an object created by human beings, so ancient myths will not involve the moon.

For example, Yanhuang created the greatest biotechnology civilization in human history, such as agriculture, medicine and consanguinity, which was later called "Shennong". Legend has it that Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, Huangdi Neijing, Shennong Herbal Classic and so on.

People who have made great contributions in this era are regarded as gods by later generations. This is the gentleman's era of "three emperors and five emperors". Since then, mankind has had the legendary worship and belief object of God.

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However, the clue to the birth of the moon is hidden in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, "* * * public anger cannot reach the surrounding mountains", and it points directly to Mount Everest in the northwest, the first volcano in the world that has been static for hundreds of thousands of years.

With a height of more than 23 kilometers and unprecedented explosive force, it threw nine huge magma into the sky for dozens to hundreds of kilometers.

Among them, the largest and highest mass of magma passes through the atmosphere and enters the orbit around the earth. It was named "the moon" by ancient people imitating the shape of "the sun", and it still has the unique sulfur smell of volcanic magma.

The explosion and eruption of Mount Qomolangma led to the concentrated extinction of loong, a prehistoric giant herbivore, which tore a hole far larger than the diameter of the moon in the atmosphere, and a fairy tale of the goddess mending the sky appeared, which led to the influx of space gas into the atmosphere, brought the last glacier phenomenon on the earth and triggered the critical point of temperature. The birth of carnivores also forced people on the Loess Plateau to invent food and open the largest one.

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These contents are revealed through the analysis of historical clues, but are hidden in the historical sky by the curtain of history.

Subsequent myths and legends about the moon were hundreds of thousands of years later.

The moon, perhaps an unparalleled huge gem ~