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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Poetry special ability
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:15:51 +0000
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 4:10:14 +0000, David Dalton wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2025, W.Dockery wrote
> (in article<d138d137669d04b8f4041da399f44d96@www.novabbs.com>):
>
>> David Dalton wrote:
>>>
>>> As some on here know, I claim to be a primary ootw (Opener
>>> of the Way, which I previously called avatar type) with a
>>> global region and with a primary siddhi of matchmaking.
>>>
>>> This primary siddhi differs from one ootw to another. I
>>> believe that Rama had special language ability,
>>> Krishna and Pan had special musical ability (as
>>> does Ed Sheeran), Jacob had an agricultural ability
>>> combining green thumb and animal husbandry,
>>> Buddha had hypnosis special ability (including
>>> guiding meditation), Jesus had healer special
>>> ability, and Amergin and Glooskap had weatherworking
>>> special ability. I don’t know yet what Moses’s
>>> primary siddhi was; I will have to read the bible
>>> and figure it out eventually (any suggestions?).
>>>
>>> And while I hope to regain some poetic creativity,
>>> I don’t have poetry special ability as my primary
>>> siddhi. What ootws did? I think at least
>>> Taliesin (Gwion Bach), Heracles, and the
>>> composer of the Havamal. If David of the
>>> Old Testament was an ootw (which I think
>>> likely due to the five stones and a sling,
>>> i.e. 5.5 lunar months), I think he had musical
>>> special ability, not poetry special ability.
>>
>> Interesting thread.
>>
>> Long time no see, David.
>>
>> 😏
>
> Hi there, Will. I’m mostly hanging out on alt.religion.druid
> but do check these groups, and may post some more if
> my poetry creativity ever returns, though as I note above
> I don’t have poetry special ability. (Thomas the Rhymer
> may also have had it.)

Yes, well stop by anytime, David.

😏