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...".
