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The disappearance or arrival of the Moon is spoken of in at least two other ancient myths that come to mind. One is in the Welsh "Mabinogeon", an origin myth for the tides, which obviously implies a time before the Moon, but not necessarily. And the Greeks of ancient Attica claimed to have lived there since before the Moon was in the sky.

The Moon's past orbit has been reconstructed from nautiloid fossils. The major septa such species lay down today is tied to the lunar month (not the civil one, obviously). 420 million years ago the month was only 9 days long. At that time the Moon was less than half the distance from the Earth that it is now.

This means the Moon was not made from the Earth by a huge impact, because 420 million years is only one-tenth the age of the Earth, and most of the Earth-Moon distance would have had to have accumulated during those first 4 billion or so years.

Also, a fission scenario (either through impact, or through overspin a la Van Flandern) is the most complicated of all the models of lunar origin. It requires not only an impact, but one in which the lunar material remains within Earth's sphere of influence and forms a sphere (the lunar core is only 8 km off dead center). It is thus a fission model, a capture model, and an in situ formation model all in one.

Sooooo, the Moon formed somewhere else and was captured by the Earth, probably in a series of encounters as speculated by V.A. Firsoff circa 1960.

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Cruising around the net googling moon /mythology came accross a NASA/JPL comment.
Seems there is several NEA streams which NASA/JPL regressed via computer modelling and discovered a point of origen.
Their conclusion...some of the NEA's out there in several streams are probable remnants of a moon torn apart by some mechansim.
they also forwarded the possibility that the Earth has had other moons..

NASA recently admiting..well tenatively : ).that Mars orbital config has changed in the past.

Velikovsky discovered reams of info on cultural calandric mods...same culture modding its calendar from 360 to 365..world wide..and paralell aspect as China and Mesopotamia both did the calendar re cal same period.
Velikovsky may get a mild nod of conscent from those who at least tenatively accept orbital divergence that results in the calendric account.
but then..Velikovsky discovered earth year calendar in the high 280'290's.