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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In the Irish tales of Fionn, Finnegas catches the Salmon of Wisdom,   
   which is supposedly Fintan in salmon form, after seven years   
   of trying, and it is tasted by Fionn.   
      
   Is there any evidence that the Salmon of Wisdom represents   
   the salmon-shaped fat waxing crescent moon, which phase   
   we are now in (the moon is now at 31.4%, or ten times pi)?   
      
   Of course there are other instances of seven years, as in   
   the seven tines of Amergin, the seven years spent as   
   hound to the smith of Cu Chulainn, the seven years   
   in fairyland of Thomas the Rhymer and in Tam Lin,   
   the seven ascetic years of the Buddha, and in the   
   following poem:   
      
   Seven years your right,   
   under a flagstone, in a quagmire,   
   Without food, without taste, but the thirst you ever torturing,   
   The law of the judges your lesson, and prayer your language:   
   And if you like to return   
   You will be, for a time, a Druid, perhaps.   
   (Ancient Irish Poem)   
      
   Also in Taliesin’s poem The Hostile Confederacy he   
   mentions seven score muses, which in lunar months   
   is a little more than an 11-year sunspot cycle. If   
   that was the time from his sun stare, thorn hill climb,   
   and blue rose vision to his release from his low/working   
   years and his low/working years started like mine   
   a bit more than four years after the sun stare/etc,   
   that implies that his low years lasted seven years,   
   though he doesn’t explicitly mention seven years   
   as far as I know.   
      
   However my low/working years, while I expected them   
   to end after 29 years (the commonest seven plus two   
   11-year sunspot cycles), are now at a bit more than   
   30 years. I hope that does not mean I have to wait   
   until 36 years (the three years of Jesus plus three   
   11-year sunspot cycles, or the fourteen years of   
   Rama plus two 11-year sunspot cycle), but that it has   
   gone to 30 years just because the current sunspot cycle   
   has been lasting longer than the usual 11 years.   
      
   But anyway I am mainly interested in whether the   
   Salmon of Wisdom could be the current waxing crescent   
   moon, rather than the waning crescent moon of   
   my five waning crescent highs from 1991--1994.   
      
   --   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “I gave my love a golden feather; I gave my love a heart of stone; When you   
   find a golden feather it means you’ll never lose your way back home”(RR)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)