The big blue eye in the sky

Something from the Astrology forum at Tribe.net

"On the Moon, all the stars circle around you every 28 days instead of [every] 24 hours, and the Sun moves around you the same way. Yet the Earth stays right in the same spot. I remember thinking if ancient man had been born on the Moon, he would have had much more difficulty determining what was going on because things would have been slow in motion. But I felt pretty sure ancient cultures would have worshipped the Earth and thought it was an eye, because it would change from blue to white and you could see something moving up there that did look like a coloured eye. No doubt they would think that was a god up there watching them. There's no telling the [number of] virgins they would have sacrificed to that thing."

-- Alan Bean, Apollo 12 astronaut. "Bean works in acrylic and paints themes from lunar exploration and, as of October 2005, was still painting."