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All ancient societies have peered into the sky, and, in their cosmogony, the Moon has always played a paramount role. Ancient Oceanians were no exception and all their activities were punctuated by the phases of our neighbouring planet. Their calendar was established according to the Moon cycle, which means that a year comprised about 13 lunar months.
The Moon was a living being, obviously deified, with a bad temper which had to be taken into account. There even was a war Moon, which clearly was not a good omen, although warfare, for them, was almost a daily business.
The advances in the conquest of the Moon stirred deep passion and interest among modern Polynesians and, neither the first landing on the Moon of an automatic spaceship by the Russians in 1966 nor the first step on our heavenly body by the American Neil Armstrong on 21 July 1969, left islanders unconcerned. This is all the more true as astronauts from all nations often splashed down into our vast Pacific Ocean.
If the first man to set foot on the Moon had been a Polynesian, he certainly would have shown his joie de vivre by putting up a pareo, bursting out into laughter, which is the hallmark of our happy country, as perfectly suggested by humorous drawer Gotz.
C.BESLU
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