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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jun 4, 2019, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.22A6561B037985EA7000056902CF@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > It is early waxing moon again so maybe this time the landlady’s   
   > eyes (sun and moon) will open wide with delight for sure.   
   > (That’s a reference to the song Wild Rover which has the lines   
   > “Out of my pocket I took ten sovereigns bright   
   > And the landlady’s eyes opened wide with delight”   
   > Also Odin’s missing eye could also represent new moon.   
   > Are there any tales of Odin’s closed or missing eye opening?)   
   >   
   > The Silver Bough thumb   
   >   
   > Once in 1996 or 1997 I thumbed at random a book on Scottish folklore called   
   > The Silver Bough Vol. 1 by F. Marian McNeill. It came out to a page with this   
   > poem on it:   
   >   
   > Ri faicinn domh na gealaich uir,   
   > Is duth domh mo shuil a thogail.   
   > Is duth domh ma ghlun a leagail,   
   > Is duth domh mo cheann a bhogadh,   
   >   
   > Toir cliu dhuit fein, a re nan iul,   
   > Gum faca mi thu a rithist,   
   > Gum faca mi a ghealach ur,   
   > Ailleagan iuil na slighe.   
   >   
   > Is iomadh neach a chaidh a null   
   > Eadar uine an da ghealaich,   
   > Ged tha mise a' mealtainn fuinn,   
   > A re nan re 's nam beannachd!   
   >   
   > which translates as:   
   >   
   > When I see the new moon,   
   > It becomes me to life mine eye,   
   > It becomes me to bend my knee,   
   > It becomes me to bow my head.   
   >   
   > Giving thee praise, thou moon of guidance,   
   > That I have seen thee again,   
   > That I have seen the new moon,   
   > The lovely leader of the way.   
   >   
   > Many a one has passed beyond   
   > In the time between the two moons,   
   > Though I am still enjoying earth,   
   > Thou moon of moons and of blessings!   
   >   
   > Now in that I think new moon refers not to the modern new moon or dark of   
   > moon but the early waxing crescent moon or first horn of moon.   
      
   However I am probably like Sisyphus rolling the moon rock up the hill again.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Goin' away far across the sea/But I'll be back for you/I'm gonna tell   
   you everything I know/Baby, everything is true” (Van Morrison)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)