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* Music/CaptainBeefheart's "Full Moon, Hot Sun" from ''Music/UnconditionallyGuaranteed''

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* Music/CaptainBeefheart's "Full Moon, Hot Sun" from ''Music/UnconditionallyGuaranteed''''Music/UnconditionallyGuaranteed'':



* Helios of Myth/GreekMythology is literally the Sun himself, while his sister Selene is the Moon. Even today, Helios and Selene are the Greek words for the Sun and Moon.

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* In Buddhist mythos, [[HealerGod Bhaiṣajyaguru]] the Buddha of medicine is served by two ''bodhisattvas'' Sūryaprabha ("sunlight") and Candraprabha ("moonlight").
* In several [[Myth/ChineseMythology Chinese mythical tales]], the immortals Hou Yi and Chang'e are later associated with sun and moon respectively, after Chang'e got lifted to the moon by drinking an immortality elixir, and after he died, Hou Yi was given a palace in the sun after in life he shot down nine suns to death. They use this setup to visit each other, and later get associated with the Yin-Yang theme.
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Helios of Myth/GreekMythology is literally the Sun himself, while his sister Selene is the Moon. Even today, Helios and Selene are the Greek words for the Sun and Moon.



* In several Chinese mythical tales, the immortals Hou Yi and Chang'e are later associated with sun and moon respectively, after Chang'e got lifted to the moon by drinking an immortality elixir, and after he died, Hou Yi was given a palace in the sun after in life he shot down nine suns to death. They use this setup to visit each other, and later get associated with the Yin Yang theme.
* In Buddhist mythos, [[HealerGod Bhaiṣajyaguru]] the Buddha of medicine is served by two ''bodhisattvas'' Sūryaprabha ("sunlight") and Candraprabha ("moonlight").

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Due to its nature as an object that provides warmth and light, [[ThePowerOfTheSun the sun]] has played symbolic and important roles throughout the history of fiction. Undead or demonic creatures have been depicted as being [[GoodHurtsEvil vulnerable to it]], likely to its associations with {{light|EmUp}} and [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. If associated with malevolence, can go in line with LightIsNotGood--imagine sunburns, imagine merciless UV rays scorching everything they touch. This can get even worse with monsters and antagonists that are either made of those elements and/or are able to utilize them without any ill-effect to their being.

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Due to its nature as an object that provides warmth and light, [[ThePowerOfTheSun the sun]] has played symbolic and important roles throughout the history of fiction. Undead or demonic creatures have been depicted as being [[GoodHurtsEvil vulnerable to it]], likely to its associations with {{light|EmUp}} and [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. If associated with malevolence, can go in line with LightIsNotGood--imagine LightIsNotGood -- imagine sunburns, imagine merciless UV rays scorching everything they touch. This can get even worse with monsters and antagonists that are either made of those elements and/or are able to utilize them without any ill-effect to their being.



FridgeLogic may apply to any reference to moonlight affecting beings or objects since the moon has no actual light of its own (it's a hunk of space rock orbiting Earth) and its glow is just the sunlight that is being shone on the moon and reflected by it. Hence, in theory, anything that moonlight should trigger, normal sunlight should actually be triggering as well (and vice-versa). [[FanWank Of course, one may then theorize that this light somehow "changes" when reflected...]]

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FridgeLogic may apply to any reference to moonlight affecting beings or objects since the moon has no actual light of its own (it's a hunk of space rock orbiting Earth) and its glow is just the sunlight that is being shone on the moon and reflected by it. Hence, in theory, anything that moonlight should trigger, normal sunlight should actually be triggering as well (and vice-versa). [[FanWank Of course, one may then theorize that this light somehow "changes" when reflected...]]reflected]]...


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* "The Moon Will Sing" by Music/TheCraneWives is built around the singer [[CosmicMotifs comparing themself]] to the Moon and their abusive loved one to the Sun:
-->''I shine only with the light you give me''

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