>>27152355This is represented again thousands of miles and thousands of years away in the shrouded mountains and fields of ancient China, which saw the toad as an entirely female force, a negative "yin" in direct contrast to the positive "yang", which was a masculine symbol. The moon was the ultimate symbol of yin, and so many Chinese tales refer to the female bullfrog, Jin Chan, transformed into a frog for attempting to steal the Peaches of Immortality, and whose face is apparently visible at the full moon. The concept of the auspicious moon frog would repeat itself in the Japanese mythological character called the Gamma Sennin, or the Kosensei.
