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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jul 12, 2021, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.269C1B7C0044553470000199538F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > The Haida people of Northern British Columbia have a   
   > creation story in which Raven discovers humans inside   
   > a clamshell.   
   >   
   > I associate Raven with new (dark) moon and the two   
   > halves of the clamshell with waning crescent and   
   > waxing crescent.   
      
   Now instead I associate the clamshell with full moon,   
   or maybe, since a clamshell isn’t perfectly circular,   
   with the current early waning gibbous moon   
   phase, which I also relate to the tombstone   
   of Jesus rolling aside (as the moon, the tombstone,   
   wanes). But I still associate Raven with my past   
   waning crescent to new (dark) moon inspirations.   
      
   --   
   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)   
   "And don’t you know that there’s a wolf stalking in sheep’s clothing   
   tells me he’s the real thing/Think what your life would be missing if   
   you didn’t have him to sing/To sing about” (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)