The month of May is named after the goddess Maya, personifying fertility. Our ancestors knowingly called the last spring month exactly - only long-term observations, conducted by them from year to year, made it possible to build a chain of regularities, according to which, in May, you can determine what the harvest will be. Was there anything more important for a man living by the clock and thermometers of nature?
There are a lot of people's signs for May, for every day of the calendar you can find your own belief. But there are basic, such as a sign that strongly does not recommend marrying in May. The reason is that after, as they say in the people, "namayetes."
Weather
It is the weather for May days is the main theme will take. After all, in the old days people sowed and harvested crops without thermometers and calendars - here the bushes and trees blossomed, so you can sow, the fields are covered with the yellow roof of a sunflower - that means you can harvest.
According to popular beliefs, on May 4, the May frosts begin. At this time, cherry blooms, and the cold is called "bird cherry". True really frosty May - a rare phenomenon, such luck happens only once in the family of years.
Why are you lucky? But because, according to the May signs, the cold May leads to the grain-growing year. If May is rainy, wait for a good harvest of rye. True, at the same time, the rain in the last month of spring speaks of dry September, and vice versa. You can forget about the cold, as soon as the earrings appear on the hazel. At this time, began to sow radishes, poppies, cornflowers and calendula.
By May 13, you can "calculate" the weather for the summer. If the sunrise is clear, summer will be windy, if the evening of May 13th is warm and the night sky is full of stars, summer will be hot and the harvest will be good.
But, what really there with the summer, because even the next winter can be predicted by the weather in May, and it should be done on the next day - on the 14th. If there is bad weather on this day, wait for the harsh winter.
Ten days later, you can find out whether it is worth waiting for the rain in the summer - if it rained on May 24, then the summer will also be wet. If it did not rain, you would not wait for rain in the summer.
All these people's signs in May are acting and are not fairy tales of the wonders of our ignorant ancestors. People did not have a calendar, or a clock, or an alarm clock (to say nothing of the technique with which they are sowing crops today), and you had to deal with it, because you sow one day earlier or later, and you'll be plowing the cat all the year.
It was on such observations with the application of the deepest efforts, people tried to create (and eventually created) their "agrarian" calendar.
What to do in May?
There are a lot of signs relating to the month of May, which state, on which day of the month, what to do. Observations, again, are based on the experience of ancestors.
So, May honey is considered the best and most useful, and bee pollen has medicinal properties.
May 11 is celebrated the day of Maxim. On this day, all patients should drink birch sap (which is also collected in May), because only today it is able to heal hopelessly sick.
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In general, to monitor such weather, and not only, phenomena useful to us, even given that it is much easier to look at the weather forecast on the network, or buy an agricultural calendar. At a minimum, you will be able to develop mindfulness, and as a maximum, you will feel how much closer you have become to nature and how loudly the cry of ancestors sounds in you.