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   XPost: alt.religion.orisha   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Is there anything special about the period (or just   
   time separation) of 5.5 lunar months (162 days) other   
   than that it corresponds to 6 solar rotations?   
      
   I ask because three times in 1993--1994 I had onset   
   of a waning crescent hypomania 5.5 lunar months   
   after onset of a waxing gibbous moon mixed/psychotic   
   episode, and in fact I predicted the third hypomania   
   based on the first two and the third mixed episode.   
      
   This is described in more detail on my   
   Salmon on the Thorns web page   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html   
   though I need to update the science subpage.   
      
   I claim that Taliesin (Gwion Bach) in his line   
   "eight score in every score" was referring to   
   this 162 day separation (and that in his   
   lines "Seven score muses   
   There are in the inspiration of song" he was   
   referring to the number of lunar months in a   
   solar sunspot cycle.)   
      
   Does the 5.5 lunar month/162 day/6 solar rotation   
   cycle (or just time separation) show up in any   
   legend/folktale/myth/oral history that you know of?   
      
   I have also posted this to sci.astro and other groups.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Music & Travel   
   "So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"  (Bob Dylan)   
      
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