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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Sep 4, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2C8822740033132170000FB1338F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > It is now 27 hours after dark moon and the moon is 1.2%   
   > waxing crescent. However I doubt it will be sighted before   
   > the evening of September 4. (Follow up if you see it.)   
   >   
   > The Silver Bough thumb   
   >   
   > Once in 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 lift 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!   
   >   
   > I have been told that that moon rune poem is of Christian origin,   
   > but perhaps it has earlier pagan roots.   
      
   It seems my workings could not begin at dark moon but   
   instead after my first local sighting of the waxing crescent.   
      
   I viewed the waxing crescent for the first time this lunar month at   
   exactly sunset, 7:30 p.m. NDT (2200 UTC/GMT) September 6, 2024,   
   almost four days after the exact time of new (dark) moon.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her   
   head to find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (S. McL.)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)