Category Archives: Month

Blessing, Month, civilization

GOOD & BLESSED MONTH....

Axileas Arslanoglou
GOOD & BLESSED MONTH....

My friends, let us open our hearts to accept love for our fellow man, peace for the whole world and hope for a better tomorrow....
April is the fourth month of the year according to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars, the eighth during the Ecclesiastical year beginning in September, the second according to the old Roman calendar and the tenth according to the Attic calendar (they were called Munich and corresponded to the time period 24 March-April 22 of the Gregorian calendar).
By the time of the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar it included 29 days since then 30. Nero it 65 A.D. try, without success, to rename April to Neronio (Nero) commemorating his rescue after a failed assassination attempt involving his teacher Seneca.
The custom of "April Fool's Day", with the innocent lies, it is a pan-European custom and it came to Greece, rather, the time of the Crusades. It has its roots in the ancient Celts, who used to go fishing on April Fool's Day and resort to false stories of big fish when they came back empty-handed.
The word April (Latin Aprillis) etymologically derived from the Latin verb aperire, which means "open". It is the month when the weather "opens up" and Spring comes.


April is the month par excellence where Easter is celebrated. In the first three centuries of Christianity, the various churches celebrated this great feast on different dates. Due to these differences the First Ecumenical Synod, which Constantine the Great convened at Nicaea in Bithynia the 325 A.D., decreed that “Easter should be celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon of spring, and if the full moon occurs on a Sunday then it should be celebrated on the following Sunday (the celebration of Easter was therefore directly linked to the vernal equinox and the first full moon of spring).

Month

March: HAPPY MONTH – HAPPY LENT

HAPPY MONTH – HAPPY LENT
We welcome the first month of spring, which marks the rebirth-revival-renewal of nature.
So let March be blessed, cheerful, joyful, colorful, fragrant, peaceful, hopeful for all of us..
March is the first month of Spring and the third consecutive month of the year according to the Gregorian Calendar.
In ancient times March was the first month of the ten month year and its original name was Primus, i.e. first. According to Roman history, Rome and Romulus, founders of Rome, they named this month March in honor of their father and progenitor of the Romans, of the god Mars (March), that is, of Mars.
March partially corresponds to the ancient Attic calendar with the month of Elafivolion, during which it was the season for deer hunting and the great sacrifices were made in honor of Artemis.
This is a fickle month in terms of weather conditions, and he is the only one who has become the subject of many traditions.
One of them refers to March's marriage to two women, one beautiful and one ugly. When he turns and looks at the first one he is smiling and the sun is shining, while he and the whole creation are clouded, when facing the second.
March is inextricably linked with Lent, the great fast before Easter. The proverb "March is not missing from Lent" is also related..
At 25 The anniversary of the Greek National Rebellion is also celebrated in March, which coincides with the great feast of Christianity, the Annunciation of the Virgin.
Month, civilization

Axileas Arslanoglou: December Month, Happy Birthday.

MY BEST HOLIDAY WISHES – THE MOST HOPEFUL MONTH OF THE YEAR
December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and is one of the 7 months in duration 31 days.
The name December came from the Latin decem meaning ten, since December was the 10th month according to the Roman calendar (time for the Romans began in March).
December is the month with the fewest daylight hours in the northhemisphere and most daylight hours in the southern hemisphere and always begins on the same day of the week as September.
In ancient Athens December was equivalent to the second fortnight of the month of Maimacterion and the first fortnight of the month of Poseidon, which was dedicated to the god Poseidon.
The Romans had two important festivals in December : the "Saturnalia" (celebration of joy and relaxation where apart from the established sacrifices, the exchange of gifts and games of chance were dominant) and Vrumalia (winter solstice celebration that honored the light deity Helios). Pigs were sacrificed on both festivals, which they then consumed
In our people's calendar, December is considered particularly "festive" because of its many religious holidays, but above all it is inextricably linked with the celebration of Christmas on 25 of the month.
update, Month, Friends Letters

Arslanoglou Achilleas: GOOD MONTH

MULTICOLORED, EUODIASTO, COMPETITIVE AND HOPEFUL MONTH FOR ALL

May or May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and has 31 days. In the Attic calendar it was the eleventh month of Thargilia, corresponding with the time interval 23 April-May 23, while it was the third month of the ten-month Roman calendar (Greater).

According to Plutarch, this month was dedicated to the God Mercury. Its name is due to the mother of God Mercury the nymph Maia, which was the most beautiful of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
In art in the month of May, the Romans represented him as a middle-aged man wearing a broad tunic with large cuffs (like today's dressing) and having on his head the canister full of flowers while at his feet was a peacock (peacock) with open wings.

May is "a month of joy and worship of vegetation", with beliefs and customs of a timeless nature, like the traditional custom with the May Day wreath which decorates the door of the house until 24 June, when it is burned in the fires of Ai-Yiannis.

The great religious feast of May is that of Saints Constantine and Helen (21 May) and the 29th of May is a day off, where "Turkey the City".
THE 1 May has been characterized as an almost universal day of strike (and not a holiday) and is dedicated to workers' claims and struggles. On this day you honor the labor movement and the first major demonstrations that took place 1886 in Chicago with a request for the three eights : eight hours of work, eight entertainment and eight sleep.

In GREECE, his tobacco workers' strike 1936 in Thessaloniki it was painted with blood which was recorded, in the next day's newspapers, with a characteristic photo which showed a mother wailing over her slain child. That photo inspired Yiannis Ritsos to write the "Epitaph": "May Day you hated me / May day I miss you...".

Axileas Arslanoglou's photo.

update, Month, February, Friends Letters

Arslanoglou Achilleas: GOOD MONTH

HAPPY, HAPPY, CREATIVE, BLESSED, HOPEFUL MONTH
February the second month of the year, with duration 28 days for common years and 29 leap days.
It was originally the twelfth and last month of the Roman calendar but when January became the first month of the calendar, around the 153 e.g., February was established as the second.
With the calendar reform of Julius Caesar, the 45 e.g., February had 29 days the common years and 30 partyou're in the middle of nowhere. Nevertheless, the 4 B.C. the emperor Octavian Augustus removed a day from February and added it to August, which was dedicated to him.
Its name comes from the Latin verb februare (sublimate, lustrate), due to the rites of purification and cleansing performed in Rome (February and Feralia), from which the later Apocreos celebrations and Carnival events originate.
According to others, the name February comes from "veins", that is, the underground water that springs up during its duration from the many rains.
In the ancient Attic calendar, February corresponded to the second fortnight of the month of Gamilion and the first fortnight of the month of Anthestirion. During this time in Athens, Theogamia was celebrated (in honor of the marriage of Zeus and Hera) and the Dispensaries (in honor of Dionysus), on the first day of which the jars with the new wine were opened.


—

Month, November

Happy November month.

GOOD MONTH MY FRIENDS

Let's enjoy the smells and colors of November
and let's hope they will fill us with beautiful feelings and moments of joy…
November is the eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, he's got 30 days and starts every year on the same day that February and March start (with the exception of leap years). In the Roman calendar, he was ninth in line, as his name indicates (novem=nine) The Romans had dedicated it to Poseidon and celebrated the Poseidonia.
For the ancient Greeks, November was the 5th month of the Attic year and had the name "Maimakterion". This name comes from one of the names of God Zeus who was also called "Maimaktis", i.e. stormy. He was the god of the weather, and mortals held a feast in his honor to secure his favor with prayers, so that the weather is not threatening and dangerous for humans and the winds are not particularly fierce.
This month's featured flower is the chrysanthemum and the lucky stone is the topaz.
The most important farm job of the month, not only for the Greeks but for all the peoples of Meof soy, it's the thawing, i.e. the picking of olives for the production of oil. It starts in November and lasts up to three months in some places.
The feasts of the month include the feast of Archangels Michael and Gabriel, of Saint Philip, of Saint Catherine and Saint Andrew. The biggest, Nevertheless, feast of the month is the Entrance of the Virgin on 21 November.
Archangel Michael is considered as "the cat’ angel par excellence" and for this reason in certain areas, on the eve of his feast day, they brought their shoes inside the house so that the Archangel would not see them and come to take them before their time.
Since ancient times, various highly visible celestial objects have warned people as signs of weather changes. The best known example is the open Pleiades star cluster, better known as Puglia. From the time of Hesiod the setting of the Pleiades immediately after the setting of the Sun, which happens in mid-November, marked and marked the period of the coming of cold and warned the farmers to finish sowing.
The rain of lions, spectacular celestial phenomenon, happens every year around 17 November. Our land, during its orbit around the sun, encounters the particle cloud of Comet Temple-Tuttle. Tiny gram-weight particles hit the earth's atmosphere, they ignite and form a ball of light 2 to 3 meters moving at speed 30 to 60 kilometers (also known as a shooting star).


— 

Month

GOOD MONTH MY FRIENDS - HAPPY SUMMER CONTINUATION .....

GOOD MONTH MY FRIENDS - HAPPY SUMMER CONTINUATION .....
August, according to the old Roman calendar, it was the sixth month and in Latin was called Sextilis. The year 8 B.C. Augustus Caesar gave it his name. Originally it had 30 days, but Octavian arbitrarily added another day to it (which he took from February) to keep up with July, which was dedicated to Julius Caesar. It is called, that August put the month in that position, to honor him death of Cleopatra who is believed to have ended her life on 12 Of August 30 e.g..
In our country, the whole of August is dedicated to the Virgin Mary with supplications, fasting, her Dormition, the Meteorites, on the Nine Days and with the deposition of Agia Zoni on 31 August, so the church year ends.
This is the month that nourishes the eleven, for it is the season where everything is in abundance: wheat, corn, the raisin the figs, the walnuts, the fruits, the vegetables, grapes etc. For this reason August has popular names: Psychologist, Pentafas (because they eat five times a day),Waiter, and Drimaris from "drimes" or "drimata" as the first days of the month are called.
The first twelve days of August were also called "days", because they said they foretold the weather: "every day and a month". These days were also known as "strike days". On these days, no one was supposed to go to the sea for a swim, neither wash nor cut grapes and figs.
Finally, the proverbs about August can be divided into two main categories, a’ the ones who say how good he is ("August, my good month, they are born twice a year") and the others that connect this month with the beginning of winter ("since August winter, and summer from March", or “Augustus was afflicted, the end of winter").