Two Moon Rabbits (Patreon)

Moon Rabbit is featured in East Asian and indigenous American folklore. This funny coincidence is because the dark markings on the Moon looks similar to a rabbit!In East Asia, Moon Rabbit is often associated with the full moon during the Autumn equinox. Since today is Chuseok [추석, Korean variant of Mid-Autumn Festival], I drew the Korean moon rabbit pounding a rice cake with a jeolgu [절구, mortar and pestle]. He is wearing a typical Joseon period peasant cloth.In Mesoamerica, rabbits are associated with the moon and fertility. The Nahuas believed that the deities diminished the moon's excessive brightness by throwing the rabbit on its surface. They also had rabbit deities called Centzon Totochtin, who ruled over pulque and drunkenness. Here, the Mexica Moon Rabbit is wearing an ometochtecomayo tilmatli, which is a cloak with the symbol of a gold of pulque, Ometochtli [Two Rabbit]. He is also holding a bowl of pulque.