An Observation

In Spanish--and I’m guesing this goes for French and other European languages in which nouns are gendered--the sun is el sol (masculine article) and the moon is la luna (with the feminine article).  Son, the word for a male child, and sun are homophones.  There’s a song called “Mr. Sun”.  In Western cultures the calender is marked by the movements of the earth around the sun.

There’s a Korean folktale that I learned as a child.  It says that a brother and sister stole away into the night and were chased by a tiger; they ended up escaping it by going into the moon with the brother becoming the sun and the sister turning into the moon.  But the girl was scared of the dark, so the siblings switched places and the brother became the moon.  The moon is male. Many Eastern cultures follow the lunar calender, marked by the cycles of the moon around the earth.


I wonder if there's a culture out there which believes that feminine>masculine and reflects this in its calender.