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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Taliesin’s poem The Hostile Confederacy contains the following lines:   
      
   "Seven score muses   
   There are in the inspiration of song;   
   Eight score in every score   
   In the great abyss of tranquility   
   In the great abyss of wrath...”   
      
   The seven score in lunar months is 11 years and four lunar months,   
   so basically an 11-year solar sunspot cycle. The eight score, or   
   more precisely 162 days, is 5.5 lunar months or six Carrington   
   solar rotations. The great abyss of tranquility is depression   
   and the great abyss of wrath is a mixed/dysphoric/psychotic trial.   
      
   I first noted the above in the spring of 1994 though I didn’t post   
   about it much until the end of 1996/beginning of 1997.   
      
   There is more detail at https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/celtic.html .   
      
   --   
   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)