From tyagi@bjt.net Fri Dec 20 16:10:56 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from kudonet.com (kudonet.com [165.227.52.1]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07506 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:10:51 -0500 Received: from kudo20.kudonet.com by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA07658; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:58:59 -0800 Received: by kudo20.kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA00471; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:50:49 -0800 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:50:49 -0800 Message-Id: <199612201950.LAA00471@kudo20.kudonet.com> To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Subject: Wicca/9612.mmcmoon.gc From: nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) Reply-To: nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) Status: O >From: l23@hopi.dtcc.edu (GERALD J. LA CORTE) >Newsgroups: soc.religion.paganism,alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.misc,alt.mythology,alt.religion.wicca,alt.pagan,talk.religion.newage >Subject: Re: ABranchfeather: Reality of Gods (was William Blake's >Followup-To: soc.religion.paganism,alt.magick.tyagi,talk.religion.misc,alt.mythology,alt.religion.wicca,alt.pagan,talk.religion.newage >Date: 16 Dec 1996 08:37:33 -0600 >Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College >Lines: 41 >Sender: srpbot@news.brewich.com >Approved: SRP Approval Key >Message-ID: <593mr0$kht@apache.dtcc.edu> >References: <58v3av$fkl@apache.dtcc.edu> >NNTP-Posting-Host: brewich.com >X-SRP-Homepage: http://www.brewich.com/org/srp/index.html >X-SRP-Info-1: Send submissions to srpbot@brewich.com >X-SRP-Info-2: Send technical complaints to srp-admin@brewich.com >X-SRP-Info-3: Send complaints about policy to srp-modkin@brewich.com >X-Robomod-Written-By: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) >X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] >X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP soc.religion.paganism > iQBVAwUBMrVeqlzemumcYbkZAQHC6AIAhoQ1nRWV38M+k+YerMcANhHzmbU2tQtm > 2ovay8DYNVr5+m3ycA+KQwXDDHljW83p438N6RnUhFVH6JErT33Tvw== > =tHkO >Xref: kudonet.com soc.religion.paganism:3978 alt.magick.tyagi:8462 talk.religion.misc:220753 alt.mythology:26700 alt.religion.wicca:34203 alt.pagan:159803 talk.religion.newage:52939 : Hmm... better be almost ten days each if you want to make the 29.6 days of : each moon. Also, it's much easier to tell the quarters than the thirds - : the half-moons are quite obvious. Can you as easily tell 'maiden' moon from : 'mother' moon? Well, its twenty-nine days, twelve hours, fourty-four minutes for slightly more than 29.53 days - but I'll give you the couple of hours. I might be a nerd, but I'm not a jerk. How do you tell maiden from mother and those from crone? Pardon, do you have trouble recognizing teenagers from adult woment from elderly people? Its like grass. When its growing up and green, its maiden. When it bears the sheaf of wheat, rye, or whatever other grain, its mother. After which, it would whither, die, and rot. Try looking at the moon - I realize that for most of the north Atlantic coast its been tough lately. I celebrate the quarter moon as the maiden moon and two or three days later I celebrate the young mother moon - She looks different. If the sunlight line is more or less verticle, its probably a maiden moon. If its pretty close to round, its a mother moon, idealized at the full moon. Then again, twenty-five year olds don't look _much_ different from thirty year olds. : > She dies on the day of the new moon and is reborn. : Death & rebirth for the Goddess? Oooh, heresy! But anyone with enough : creativity can write religious mythology - the ancients did, and what do : they have that we don't? And the God dies on Samhain, is born on Yule, and sires himself with his consort and mother on Beltain. And you're talking about heresy. I have less problem with re-incarnation. The Sun goes up. The Sun comes down. The Sun goes up. The Sun comes down. Osirus. Set. Osirus. Set. The Moon waxes. The Moon wanes. The Moon waxes. The Moon wanes. The only difference is the terminology we use. Bests, Jay