The Moon is an important piece of lore in Germanic Mythology. Mani is a god of the Moon in the Norse pantheon, in England the folkloric deity the Man in the Moon is said to be a woodcutter who was forced to live on the moon, though others say he is in love with the moon. There is also Hjuki and Bil who function as the waxing and waning of the moon on Mani's chariot. It is unclear how common the Moon god truly was in Germany myth and spirituality, as in Germany there are folk tales of the moon personified similar to a tree or fox. While others tell a tale of a group of four men who captured the moon which was hung from a great tree, the man stole it to light up their town, and when each died the men took a piece of the moon with them. Causing the phases of the moon, though then the moon was in the land of the dead and woke the dead up, who began to act as if they were alive once more, partying, shopping, and doing all such things. Until a deity hung the moon in the heavens and put them to sleep.-TLK