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Do you know of any ancient or modern songs or poems
related to the Salmon of Wisdom?
Some background, from my post to alt.religion.druid :
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 TaliesinrCOs 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 doesnrCOt 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.
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