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   XPost: alt.folklore, alt.arts.storytelling, alt.religion.druid   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   As any readers on these groups probably know, I have been going   
   from one lunar phase to another, making predictions that never   
   come true.   
      
   I liken this to Sysyphus rolling the rock up the hill only to have it   
   roll down just before it reaches the top. The rock rolling up   
   the hill is like the moon waxing from new to full, and the rock   
   rolling down the hill is like the moon waning from full to new.   
      
   My story may also be similar to the folktale of The Boy Who   
   Cried Wolf, in Aesop’s Fables, where a boy keeps making   
   false reports of a wolf, so that after a while the villagers   
   ignore him, even though eventually the wolf does come.   
   The wolf (since it howls at the moon) I think can be   
   associated with full moon, whereas I associate Raven   
   with new (dark) moon, which is approaching.   
      
   Good night (3:21 a.m. here now),   
   DRD   
      
   --   
   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)   
   “And now the angry morning/Gives the early signs of warning/You must face   
   alone the plans you make/Decisions they will try to break" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)