July 17 is World Day for International Justice.

From google:

"17 July marks the anniversary of the adoption in 1998 of the
Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal
Court (ICC), the only permanent international criminal
jurisdiction with a universal vocation.”

By the morning of July 17 I hope that my global binding of
criminals will be in place. It is also now about the phase of
Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) though of course not
the correct lunar month.

July 16 is World Snake Day, which I associate with Lilith, who
is said to have taken a serpent shape, though she may be
more associated with the screech owl shape. I relate this
to the music festival Lilith Fair, founded by my main inspirer
of my species, Sarah McLachlan.

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David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill; And the
hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)

David Dalton wrote:
> July 16 is World Snake Day, which I associate with Lilith, who
> is said to have taken a serpent shape, though she may be
> more associated with the screech owl shape.

Same Lilith that was Adam's first wife, a nasty piece of work:

https://www.learnreligions.com/legend-of-lilith-origins-2076660

According to the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith was Adam’s first wife but
the couple fought all the time. They didn’t see eye-to-eye on matters of
sex because Adam always wanted to be on top while Lilith also wanted a
turn in the dominant sexual position. When they could not agree, Lilith
decided to leave Adam. She uttered God’s name and flew into the air,
leaving Adam alone in the Garden of Eden. God sent three angels after
her and commanded them to bring her back to her husband by force if she
did not come willingly. But when the angels found her by the Red Sea
they were unable to convince her to return and could not force her to
obey them. Eventually, a strange deal was struck, wherein Lilith
promised not to harm newborn children if they were protected by an
amulet with the names of the three angels written on it:

“The three angels caught up with her in the [Red] Sea…They seized her
and told her: ‘If you agree to come with us, come, and if not, we shall
drown you in the sea.’ She answered: ‘Darlings, I know myself that God
created me only to afflict babies with fatal disease when they are eight
days old; I shall have permission to harm them from their birth to the
eighth day and no longer; when it is a male baby; but when it is a
female baby, I shall have permission for twelve days.’ The angels would
not leave her alone, until she swore by God’s name that wherever she
would see them or their names in an amulet, she would not possess the
baby [bearing it]. They then left her immediately. This is [the story
of] Lilith who afflicts babies with disease.”