I wondered if it had something to do with gravity. The net magnitude of the gravity of the Moon and the Sun at the Earth's surface is furthest from its average when they are aligned with the Earth, ie. at a full or new moon.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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