Talk:Drawing down the Moon (ritual)

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I re-added the section I deleted accidentally, my apologies. Korn (talk) 11:43, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Apologies – I should have spotted what had happened. --Northernhenge (talk) 14:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

There is no mention in this article of an early reference to drawing down the moon in Plato's Gorgias (4th cent BCE) at p513a "...take care my good sir that we do not suffer the reputed fate of the witches of Thessaly [tas thettalidas] who draw the moon down from the sky" [trans: W. Hamilton in Penguin] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8004:4610:D7E0:59F3:1999:2881:66A8 (talk) 22:11, 9 March 2022 (UTC) There is also a reference, just before Plato, in Aristophanes' comedy "Clouds" (423 BCE), which depicts Socrates as a Sophist selling Philosophy. At line 749 a wastrel asks to buy a Thessalian witch, and "take down the moon at night." He wants to put it in a box so that he does not have to pay debts due with the new moon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8004:4610:D7E0:59F3:1999:2881:66A8 (talk) 22:28, 9 March 2022 (UTC)