Re: World Rat Day

jojo <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Apr 2026 14:47:55 +0000
Newsgroups soc.culture.china,talk.politics.china,alt.atheism,alt.astrology.asian,alt.native,soc.culture.native
Organization jieigyou
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David Dalton wrote:
> 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).
> 

ok you get 5 points for a try.