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Significance of MK's Bday 7/7
I too am bored. Look what I found about the 7th day of the 7th month.
www.odysseymagazine.com/p...ory_02.php
The Sun God was sad. He wanted his daughter to be happy, but the work of the kingdom had to be done. So he ordered the young couple to separate. From now on, Chih-nu would live on one side of the river and tend to her weaving, and Ch'ieng-niu would live on the other and tend the oxen. <strong>They could meet only once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month.</strong> But how would they cross the river?
When the day finally came, as the princess and the herdsman waited on opposite sides of the river, they heard a faint whirring -- the sound of hundreds of wings flapping together.
It was a flock of magpies. The birds darkened the sky like a sudden cloud. They then circled down in formation until they nearly touched the surface of the water. They stretched from one side of the river to the other, forming a bridge.
The princess and the herdsman rushed to each other across the backs of the birds and were reunited for one wonderful day
<strong>Chih-nu and Ch'ien-niu still live apart. Every year, though, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the magpies form a bridge over the waters of the heavenly river</strong>. Often, people say, a gentle rain falls on the morning of that day -- it's the tears of joy of the lovers reunited after a year's separation.
another account of the weaving goddess story
www.allfiberarts.com/libr...chihnu.htm
One more
www.pantheon.org/articles/c/chih_nu.html
I too am bored. Look what I found about the 7th day of the 7th month.
www.odysseymagazine.com/p...ory_02.php
The Sun God was sad. He wanted his daughter to be happy, but the work of the kingdom had to be done. So he ordered the young couple to separate. From now on, Chih-nu would live on one side of the river and tend to her weaving, and Ch'ieng-niu would live on the other and tend the oxen. <strong>They could meet only once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh month.</strong> But how would they cross the river?
When the day finally came, as the princess and the herdsman waited on opposite sides of the river, they heard a faint whirring -- the sound of hundreds of wings flapping together.
It was a flock of magpies. The birds darkened the sky like a sudden cloud. They then circled down in formation until they nearly touched the surface of the water. They stretched from one side of the river to the other, forming a bridge.
The princess and the herdsman rushed to each other across the backs of the birds and were reunited for one wonderful day
<strong>Chih-nu and Ch'ien-niu still live apart. Every year, though, on the seventh day of the seventh month, the magpies form a bridge over the waters of the heavenly river</strong>. Often, people say, a gentle rain falls on the morning of that day -- it's the tears of joy of the lovers reunited after a year's separation.
another account of the weaving goddess story
www.allfiberarts.com/libr...chihnu.htm
One more
www.pantheon.org/articles/c/chih_nu.html