Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
why would the sun be male and the moon be female? (Oh, blimmy , I think I got it).

Except, in German: der Mond und die Sonne (masculine moon and feminine sun): something I always wanted to archetypically ask Dr Jung.


Same in English back when gender meant something. The point is that gender, in general, has nothing to do with sex. It's only in a few languages that the two concepts have become conflated. In Modern English the concept of gender has pretty nmuch been lost completely. So much so that the word gender is used to mean 'sex,' as in male or female. The term sex is more often used to mean sexual intercourse.