Re: Sisyphus/The Boy Who Cried Wolf

On Dec 11, 2020, David Dalton wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> As any readers on these groups probably know, I have been going
> from one lunar phase to another, making predictions that never
> come true.
>
> I liken this to Sysyphus rolling the rock up the hill only to have it
> roll down just before it reaches the top. The rock rolling up
> the hill is like the moon waxing from new to full, and the rock
> rolling down the hill is like the moon waning from full to new.
>
> My story may also be similar to the folktale of The Boy Who
> Cried Wolf, in Aesop’s Fables, where a boy keeps making
> false reports of a wolf, so that after a while the villagers
> ignore him, even though eventually the wolf does come.
> The wolf (since it howls at the moon) I think can be
> associated with full moon, whereas I associate Raven
> with new (dark) moon, which is approaching.
>
> Good night (3:21 a.m. here now),
> DRD

And this past (and it is still very close to full tonight)
moon was the Wolf Moon according to
timeanddate.com . And maybe this time
the Wolf has come.

-- 
David Dalton [email protected] http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“And now the angry morning/Gives the early signs of warning/You must face
alone the plans you make/Decisions they will try to break" (Sarah McLachlan)