Ishtar, one of the Moon-Goddess's titles, was said to be menstruating on this day. The menstruating woman is also seen as a symbol of fertility, and in some African cultures she is led around the home of one who wishes to become pregnant and asked to touch everything. The onset of menstruation marks the move from child to woman and was celebrated with Earth Goddess or Mother Goddess rituals and according to some, much later, within the taking of blood in the Eucharist. This is believed by some to be the idea of the taking of the Menstrual blood to gain immortality, the blood of Ninhursag the serpent goddess. However we shall disprove this theory in our future book – The Serpent Grail.

The Sabbath was the moon's day of rest, the seventh day, which was later taken over by the Jews who turned it into their day of rest and laid waste to the maternal, lunar religions, and inaugurated their paternal 'sun god'.

Christians took this further, moving the day of rest to the Mithraic Sun-day; the original moon day being Monday.

The moon is tied up in many of our early cultures. The names of its associated deity vary due to locality, language and ethnic differences, but are all essentially of the same goddess. Aphrodite, Astarte, Badb, Brigit, Ch'ang O, Demeter, Hecate, Inanna, Isis, Ishtar, Maja Jotma, Tsuki-Yomi. Some of these names have been carried on, kept alive behind the scenes by the secret cults whilst they were subtly battling or even creating the front lines of the new or growing male-oriented popular gods such as Mithras and Yahweh – hiding their belief in the west behind the many Black Virgins or Madonna’s. It is well-known that many Priests of Christianity still held strong beliefs in the Isis cult under the guise of the new cult of Mary. The same has been true for centuries, and for different cultures.

The terms 'lunatic', meaning 'moon-struck' and 'mental' are both taken from the moon, under the impression that such effects are brought on by the lunar periods, usually the full moon. The idea was put forward that the electrical energy of the body became drained at this time of the month, and caused the person to lose his or her faculties. Two hundred years ago, Lunacy was covered by English law. Kleptomania, arson and dangerous driving have even been shown scientifically to increase at times of the full moon.

The Jewish Passover is celebrated on the lunar calendar; the Christian Easter is calculated from the full moon after the vernal equinox. The full moon at the autumn equinox is celebrated as the harvest moon. The eclipse of the moon is considered by many cultures to be the union of the Sun God and Moon Goddess.

Frank Brown of North-Western University, Illinois, found that oysters in his laboratory, a thousand miles from their Connecticut shore, opened at the same time as their home shores' high tide, which in turn is related to the moon's orbital pattern. Brown also proved that potatoes, rats and fiddler crabs are all governed by lunar periods.