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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.

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.

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).


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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).


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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").

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").