Ancestors linked moon to women via soothing light, cold gaze, and cyclical renewal. Moon prototypes fecundity in animal, plant, human worlds as Great Mother cult. Liguria Homo sapiens head sculpture stylizes re-entering face as half-moon with penetrating eye, pointed nose, chin horns. Sculpture lacks beard, likely feminine, matching moon-woman association. Venus of Laussel holds bison horn or crescent moon with 13 notches for lunar months. Venus points to belly, gazes at moon, covered in red ocher alluding to menstrual blood. Horns symbolize moon crescent, vulva, fertility, cornucopia across cultures. Alexander Marshack found 40,000-year-old lunar calendars. Nile goddess forms half-moon with raised arms, linked to Hathor lunar rites. African shepherds mimic cow horns with arched arms. Moon-woman identifies in Greek Cybele, Selene, Roman Diana, Phrygian Men. Minoan snake goddess waves serpents mimicking lunar periodicity. Crete Minotaur myth centers horns as moon emblem. Moon evokes mutable female behavior from soothing to disturbing.