Re: World Rat Day

On Apr 4, 2026, jojo wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

> David Dalton wrote:
> > April 4 is World Rat Day.
> >
> > That is significant to me since Rat is a SSOSOSS (species someone
> > of other species of significant sign) to me, so is a minor deity to me.
> > I received a sign from Rat early in the Year of the Rat in 1996
> > as described on https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html . In
> > case you don’t want to click on that, here is the relevant paragraph:
> >
> > "Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my sister Anne
> > and her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to Lakeview
> > along the Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic fashion
> > rapidly to the edge of the road and made a flying leap to hit our car. We
> > backed up to find it was dead and I dragged it off the road, and later
> > thought that it had committed self-sacrifice and would be reincarnated i
> > n higher form after hitting the `car of ma.’ “
> >
> > Anyway, I plan to next try a mystic attempt beginning in the early
> > evening of April 4 and leading up to Easter Sunday morning,
> > and will report progress on alt.religion.druid .
>
> most animal days are mammals right? are there any reptile or
> insect days?

Not long ago I posted about Moth-er Day (March 14).

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