Other cultures have seen other shapes in this celestial Rorschach test.
A surprisingly wide variety of people's saw a rabbit in the moon.
According to the Aztecs, the moon was pure white until one of their gods flung a rabbit against it. in India, the story goes that a rabbit leaped into a fire to sacrifice himself to feed a starving beggar.
The beggar turned out to be the god Indar in disguise. He put the rabbit on the moon so all could remember it's act of generosity. In ancient China, the rabbit was carried there by the moon goddess Heng O, who was felling her angry husband.
The Chinese also saw a toad in the moon. others have seen an old man carrying sticks, a beetle, and a woman reading a book.