Re: seven score seasons

> David Dalton wrote:
> (From his poem The Hostile Confederacy)
> Taliesin had his "seven score muses", which I take to mean
> 140 lunar months, or about the number of months in an
> 11-year sunspot cycle, and which I believe was the time
> between his sun stare and his release from his low years.
> 
> But in my case I am now approaching 35 years since my
> sun stare, and that is seven score seasons. I expected
> between 33 years and 34 years but I think the recent
> sunspot cycle has lasted longer than usual.
> 
> Taliesin’s seven score muses correspond to a low/working
> years period of seven years, and I expected a low/working
> year period of 29 years (7 years plus two 11-year sunspot
> cycles) but have now gone more than 30.6 years, so I
> round up to 31 years, again I hope because the latest
> sunspot cycle has gone longer than usual. The seven
> years period shows up explicitly for a number of other
> figures such as Amergin, Fionn, Buddha, Thomas the
> Rhymer, the hero of Tam LIn, and Cu Chulainn. For
> Jesus it was three years, and for Rama 14 years
> (three years plus an 11-year sunspot cycle). Hopefully
> I won’t have to go 36 years (3 years plus 3 sunspot cycles),
> when measured from my sun stare would be 40 years.
> 
> Anyway, just some late night rambling, but maybe
> when my creative flow returns I will incorporate
> “seven score seasons” in a poem or song, though
> I don’t have poetry special ability like Taliesin or
> music special ability like Krishna, my equivalent
> is matchmaker (and Jesus’s was healer).
> 
> --
> https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
> “Early morning, jubilators, up to no good, instigators... Sons of long
> forgotten races, that the darkest night embraces” (Ron Hynes & D.O’D)



Hello again David, interesting essay.

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