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).
