Hyacinth

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Hyacinth

***** Location: Europe, Japan, other areas
***** Season: Early Spring
***** Category: Plant

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The origin of this plant is in Greece, Syria and Lebanon. It has been introduced to Japan during the end of the Tokugawa period.
There are many varieties of this plant, also many colors. It survives the winter in its bulb and flowers with a strong smell.

(Hyacinthus orientalis)

hyacinth, hiyashinsu ヒヤシンス
..... fuushinshi 風信子
night fragrant orchid, yakooran　夜香蘭
"brocade lily" nishiki yuri　錦百合

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Hyacinth (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Hyacinth (Greek H άκινθος - Hyiakinthos) was a divine hero, the son of Clio and Pierus, King of Macedonia. His cult at Amyclae dates from the Mycenean era.

He is the tutelary deity of one of the principal Spartan festivals, the Hyacinthia, held every summer. The festival lasted three days, one day of mourning for the death of the divine hero and the last two celebrating his rebirth.

In the myth, Hyacinth was a beautiful youth beloved by the god Apollo. According to myth, the two competed at discus. They took turns throwing it, until Apollo, to impress his beloved, threw it with all his might. Hyacinth ran to catch it, to impress Apollo in turn, and was struck by the discus as it fell to the ground and he died.

There is another myth which adds that it was the wind god Zephyrus who was actually responsible for the death of Hyacinth. Zephyrus blew the discus off course, out of jealousy, so as to injure and kill Hyacinth. When he died, Apollo made a flower, the hyacinth, spring out from his spilled blood. However, the flower of the mythological Greek youth Hyacinth slain by Apollo's discus has been identified with a number of plants other than the true hyacinth, such as the iris.

Although the mythical Hyacinth was male, Hyacinth is currently in use as a female name, usually in reference to the flower and not the mythological figure.

©　From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_%28mythology%29

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Saint Hyacinth

He is the patron saint of St. Hyacinth's Basilica, in Chicago, Illinois.


Saint Hyacinth, Święty Jacek, Jacek Odrowąż
(b. 1185 in Kamień Śląski, d. August 15, 1257 in Kraków, Poland of natural causes) was educated in Paris and Bologna. A Doctor of Sacred Studies and a priest, he worked to reform convents in his native Poland. While in Rome, he witnessed a miracle performed by Saint Dominic, and became a Dominican. Brought the Dominican Order to Poland, then evangelized throughout Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Russia, Turkey, and Greece.

During an attack on a monastery, Hyacinth managed to save a crucifix and statue of Mary, though the statue weighed far more than he could normally have lifted; the saint is usually shown holding these two items.

He was canonized on 17 April 1594 by Pope Clement VIII, and his memorial day is 17 August. In 1686 pope Innocent XI named him a patron of Lithuania.

In Spanish, he is known as San Jacinto.

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Turkey

Hayacinths (sunbul) are associated with SAINT ''Hyacinth'', or Sunbul Efendi (Sümbül Efendi, Sünbül Efendi), and during the Holy Month of Fasting Stambouli (Istanbul) people visit Sunbul Efendi's tomb.
Worldkigodatabase : TURKEY

Sünbül Efendi (died 1529 in Istanbul) was the founder of the Sunbuliyye Sufi order (also spelt Sunbuli). The Sunbuliyye were a derivative of the Khalwati (also spelt Halveti and Halvetiye ) order.

The tomb of Sümbül Sinan Efendi is next to the Koca Mustafa Paşa Mosque in Istanbul. The site of his tomb was once his Tekke and is now a Mosque. The Tekke itself was once a convent that was abandoned after the conquest of Constantinople and handed over to the Khalwatis by the Sultan to use as a Tekke. Almost all of the Sheikhs who sat at the post of grand Sheikh of this order are buried at the Tekke, including another famous Sheikh of this order, Merkez Efendi (d.1552) in Yenikapı.

The tomb is frequently visited by Muslims who consider him to be a saint.
(C) Wikipedia
http://www.answers.com/topic/s-nb-l-efendi

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hyacinth -
your freshnes helps
to start this day

Gabi Greve, May 2006
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2006/05/may-1-hyacinth.html

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Regal Hyacinthe
Juxtaposed with lilies
Gossips with the breeze

Georgiagirl27

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royalty, purple
like sapphire dreams, only sweet:
hyacinth in dreams

Copyright © 2005 Jacquii Cooke
http://poetjc.home.comcast.net/index_c-new2006_11hyacinth.html

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The cold ground warming--
a hyacinth sprouts upward.
Color through the snow!

This haiku expresses Nature's ability to surprise us with it's momentary beauty. Through a blanket of white, a spring flower is able to come up and amaze us with color and life that may only last a week! The Zen Garden also shows us that through concentrating on the simple things in nature we are able to see a whole world of new things that we have never seen before and would not have seen otherwise.

Haiku Discussion in a Zen Garden, 2000
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/courseportfolios/2310/discussions/s20/haikus20.html

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Die Hyazinthe –
Wasser und Zwiebel im Glas –
es blüht der Winter

the hyacinth -
water and bulb in a glass -
winter is flowering
(Tr. Gabi Greve)

(c) 2003 by Walther Stonet

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overcast skies...
but the hyacinth
a brilliant blue

hortensia anderson

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***** Saijiki for Europa: Grape Hyacinth



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Holy Innocents

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Holy Innocents, December 28

***** Location: Christian Catholic Communities
***** Season: Winter
***** Category: Observance

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Holy Innocents, December 28

In the second chapter of Matthew's Gospel is the story of the Massacre of the Holy Innocents, an event which recalls the Pharaoh's instructions to midwives to kill all male children under the age of two, because he felt his throne was threatened by the birth of Jesus the Messiah, the King.
At the feast of Holy Innocents Mass, December 28, children are honoured as gifts of God our Father and they are together with their christmas gifts blessed by the priests.
A catholic tradition.

Gillena Cox, August 2006

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© QUOTE from the Catholic Encyclopedia

The children mentioned in St. Matthew, ii, 16-18:

Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry; and sending killed all the men children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning; Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

The Greek Liturgy asserts that Herod killed 14,000 boys (ton hagion id chiliadon Nepion), the Syrians speak of 64,000, many medieval authors of 144,000, according to Apoc., xiv, 3. Modern writers reduce the number considerably, since Bethlehem was a rather small town. Knabenbauer brings it down to fifteen or twenty (Evang. S. Matt., I, 104), Bisping to ten or twelve (Evang. S. Matt.), Kellner to about six (Christus and seine Apostel, Freiburg, 1908); cf. "Anzeiger kath. Geistlichk. Deutschl.", 15 Febr., 1909, p. 32. This cruel deed of Herod is not mentioned by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, although he relates quite a number of atrocities committed by the king during the last years of his reign. The number of these children was so small that this crime appeared insignificant amongst the other misdeeds of Herod. Macrobius (Saturn., IV, xiv, de Augusto et jocis ejus) relates that when Augustus heard that amongst the boys of two years and under Herod's own son also had been massacred, he said: "It is better to be Herod's hog [ous], than his son [houios]," alluding to the Jewish law of not eating, and consequently not killing, swine. The Middle Ages gave faith to this story; Abelard inserted it in his hymn for the feast of Holy Innocents:

Ad mandatum regis datum generale
nec ipsius infans tutus est a caede.
Ad Augustum hoc delatum risum movit,
et rex mitis de immiti digne lusit:
malum, inquit, est Herodis esse natum.
prodest magis talis regis esse porcum.

(Dreves, "Petri Abaelardi Hymnarius Paracletensis", Paris, 1891, pp. 224, 274.)

But this "infant" mentioned by Macrobius, is Antipater, the adult son of Herod, who, by command of the dying king was decapitated for having conspired against the life of his father.

It is impossible to determine the day or the year of the death of the Holy Innocents, since the chronology of the birth of Christ and the subsequent Biblical events is most uncertain. All we know is that the infants were slaughtered within two years following the apparition of the star to the Wise Men (Belser, in the Tubingen "Quartalschrift", 1890, p. 361). The Church venerates these children as martyrs (flores martyrum); they are the first buds of the Church killed by the frost of persecution; they died not only for Christ, but in his stead (St. Aug., "Sermo 10us de sanctis").

In connection with them the Apostle recalls the words of the Prophet Jeremias (xxxi, 15) speaking of the lamentation of Rachel. At Rama is the tomb of Rachel, representative of the ancestresses of Israel. There the remnants of the nation were gathered to be led into captivity. As Rachel, after the fall of Jerusalem, from her tomb wept for the sons of Ephraim, so she now weeps again for the men children of Bethlehem. The ruin of her people, led away to Babylon, is only a type of the ruin which menaces her children now, when the Messias is to be murdered and is compelled to flee from the midst of His own nation to escape from the sword of the apparitor. The lamentation of Rachel after the fall of Jerusalem receives its eminent completion at the sight of the downfall of her people, ushered in by the slaughter of her children and the banishment of the Messias.

The Latin Church instituted the feast of the Holy Innocents at a date now unknown, not before the end of the fourth and not later than the end of the fifth century. It is, with the feasts of St. Stephen and St. John, first found in the Leonine Sacramentary, dating from about 485. To the Philocalian Calendar of 354 it is unknown. The Latins keep it on 28 December, the Greeks on 29 December, the Syrians and Chaldeans on 27 December. These dates have nothing to do with the chronological order of the event; the feast is kept within the octave of Christmas because the Holy Innocents gave their life for the newborn Saviour. Stephen the first martyr (martyr by will, love, and blood), John, the Disciple of Love (martyr by will and love), and these first flowers of the Church (martyrs by blood alone) accompany the Holy Child Jesus entering this world on Christmas day.

Only the Church of Rome applies the word Innocentes to these children; in other Latin countries they are called simply Infantes and the feast had the title "Allisio infantium" (Brev. Goth.), "Natale infantum", or "Necatio infantum". The Armenians keep it on Monday after the Second Sunday after Pentecost (Armen. Menology, 11 May), because they believe the Holy Innocents were killed fifteen weeks after the birth of Christ.

In the Roman Breviary the feast was only a semi-double (in other breviaries a minor double) up to the time of Pius V, who, in his new Breviary (1568), raised it to a double of the second class with an octave (G. Schober, "Expl. rit. brev. rom.", 1891, p. 38). He also introduced the two hymns "Salvete flores martyrum" and "Audit tyrannus anxius", which are fragments of the Epiphany hymn of Prudentius. Before Pius V the Church of Rome sang the Christmas hymns on the feast of the Holy Innocents. The proper preface of the Gelasian Sacramentary for this feast is still found in the Ambrosian Missal.

We possess a lengthy hymn in honour of the Holy Innocents from the pen of the Venerable Bede, "Hymnum canentes martyrum" (Dreves, "Analecta hymnica") and a sequence composed by Notker, "Laus tibi Christe", but most Churches at Mass used the "Clesa pueri concrepant melodia" (Kehrein, "Sequenzen", 1873, p. 348). At Bethlehem the feast is a Holy Day of obligation. The liturgical colour of the Roman Church is purple, not red, because these children were martyred at a time when they could not attain the beatific vision. But of compassion, as it were, towards the weeping mothers of Bethlehem, the Church omits at Mass both the Gloria and Alleluia; this custom, however, was unknown in the Churches of France and Germany. On the octave day, and also when the feast falls on a Sunday, the Roman Liturgy, prescribes the red colour, the Gloria, and the Alleluia. In England the feast was called "Childermas".

The Roman Station of 28 December is at St. Paul's Outside the Walls, because that church is believed to possess the bodies of several of the Holy Innocents. A portion of these relics was transferred by Sixtus V to Santa Maria Maggiore (feast on 5 May; it is a semi-double). The church of St. Justina at Padua, the cathedrals of Lisbon and Milan, and other churches also preserve bodies which they claim to be those of some of the Holy Innocents. In many churches in England, Germany, and France on the feast of St. Nicholas (6 December) a boy-bishop (q.v.) was elected, who officiated on the feast of St. Nicholas and of the Holy Innocents. He wore a mitre and other pontifical insignia, sang the collect, preached, and gave the blessing. He sat in the bishop's chair whilst the choir-boys sang in the stalls of the canons. They directed the choir on these two days and had their solemn procession (Schmidt, "Thesaurus jur eccl.", III, 67 sqq.; Kirchenlex., IV, 1400; P.L., CXLVII, 135).

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Germany

Fest der Unschuldigen Kinder

Kerzenprozession
selig lächelnder Kinder.
Zitternde Flämmchen.


Little procession
of grace-bringing innocents
their flickering flames
published in Asahi, Dec. 19, 08

Horst Ludwig, 2014


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drop of water
at Holy Innocents
a child's smile

Stitchaiga by Gillena Cox
Published 2006 at : wonderhaikuworlds.com


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Holy Innocents
a meandering row
of snowdrops

Ella Wagemakers
Joys of Japan, 2013



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all those innocents
blood-drops
on white snow

Gabriele Brunsch
Joys of Japan, 2013



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***** Child, Children (kodomo) of all kinds

***** Christmas

***** . Christian Celebrations in Japanese Kigo .


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Hedgehog Igel

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Hedgehog (Igel)

***** Location: Germany, Europa
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Animal

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Herbst / Autumn
German Saijiki : Igel (hedgehog)



hedgehog coming out after hibernation
kigo for spring


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A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to North America; those in New Zealand are introduced. Hedgehogs have changed little over the last 15 million years.

Like many of the first mammals they have adapted to a nocturnal, insectivorous way of life. The name 'hedgehog' came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle English 'heyghoge', from 'heyg', 'hegge' = hedge, because it frequents hedgerows, and 'hoge', 'hogge' = hog, from its piglike snout. Other folk names include 'urchin', 'hedgepig' and 'furze-pig'.

Hedgehogs are a powerful form of pest control. A single hedgehog can keep an average garden free of pests by eating up to 200 grams of insects each night.
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Stacheligel (Erinaceinae)
Nördlicher Weißbrustigel (Erinaceus roumanicus)
Braunbrustigel (Erinaceus europaeus)

stachellose Ratten- oder Haarigel (Galericinae)

Die Igel in kühleren Regionen halten einen Winterschlaf.
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Mecki, the famous Hedgehog Story



Mecki und seine Abenteuer


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Japan

harinezumi はりねずみ【針鼠】 "rat with needles"
topic for all seasons

I have not seen any in my rural life here in Western Japan.
Gabi Greve



愛のない人は寂しいはりねずみ
koi no nai hito wa sabishii hari nezumi

a man without love
is such a lonely thing ...
hedgehogs

Ichiba san いちば さん

Ichiba San


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source :　rakuten.co.jp/ceramicplaza/

from Setoyaki　瀬戸焼

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Gartenidylle –
zwei Igel schnuffeln
im Abendrot

Astrid Abendrot
Oktober 2002


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Igel, du bist schuld -
auch wenn du noch so tot bist.
Ich hatte Vorfahrt.

Rüdiger Jung: Windsaat, 2003


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dreaming of spring / HAIGA
Painting by Kerry Hartjen


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Honey Spas

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Honey Spas, Apple Spas, Linen Spas

***** Location: Russia
***** Season: Early Autumn
***** Category: Humanity

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In Russia Honey Spas is celebrated on August 14. This is the day on which the honey is blessed. Honey Spas marks the beginning of honey harvest. According to common belief, it is the day when swallows leave for the winter. This is considered to be a sign that summer is leaving.

Vacant swallow nests resemble honey combs. Swallows are the birds that according to the myth tried to spare Christ from prolonged suffering on the cross and cried that he is already dead. Spas means saviour. There are three holidays called Spas. Each of them is dedicated to one sacred part of the cross. August 14 is also the day on which, according to the legend, Russia was christened.

Natalia L. Rudychev
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In August, there are three holidays related to Jesus called the First Savior, the Second Savior, and the Third Savior (collectively, "The Three Saviours"). The Savior, in Russian, is called Spas.

The First Savior (the Honey Spas), is the feast of the Presentation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross, celebrated on 14 August. In Russian tradition, the First Savior is associated with the custom of eating freshly-gathered honey after having it blessed in church, and with the following events in nature: Bees stops bringing honey to their hives, bee-keepers cut open the hives, swallows and martins fly away, roses stop blooming, and cold dew covers the grass. On this day, church processions take place to bless the waters of streams and rivers and horses and cattle are usually bathed.

On 19 August, the Second Savior (the Apple Spas), the Transfiguration of Our Lord, is celebrated. The Second Saviour is associated with the custom of eating apples and other fruits that have been blessed in church, and with the following events in nature: Ripe apples are picked and blessed, the nights are becoming cold, and cranes begin to fly south. It is customary not to eat any fruits or vegetables except cucumbers before the Second Savior, and even a beggar will eat an apple on this day.

The Third Savior (the Linen Spas) is the commemoration of the Image of Our Lord Not-Made-by-Hands. It is celebrated on 29 August and is called the Linen Spas because of the linen shroud on which the image of Christ was imprinted, and also because it was the village custom to associate this holiday with the sale of linens and canvasses. Walnuts ripen by the Third Savior, and pies are baked from fresh flour.

The stories behind the Saviors and their correlation with Christianity are the following:

The First Savior got its name to commemorate the military victories of Greek Emperor Manuil and the Duke of Vladimir, Andrej the God-lover (Bogolubskij), on 14 August 1164 (or 1 August in the Julian calendar). Emperor Manuil won a battle against the Saracens and freed the Byzantine Empire from Muslim rule, while the Duke of Vladimir defeated the Bulgars of the Volga, the tribe that lived to the south of Russia. Both of the battles took place on the same day and, according to what the church says, these battles were accompanied by a miracle: The icons of the Virgin Mary and the Savior Christ glittered, encouraging the warriors and forecasting the victory of the Byzantine and Russian troops.

The Second Savior got its name from the Transfiguration of Our Lord, which was the event when Jesus showed his divine might to three of his Apostles – Peter, James, and John – on a high mountain. By this glorious manifestation, Jesus strengthened the faith of his three friends and prepared them for the terrible struggle of which they were to be witnesses in Gethsemani, by giving them a foretaste of the glory and heavenly delights that people attain through suffering.

The Third Savior received its name from the Holy Shroud or the Image of Our Lord Not-Made-By-Hands (Spas Nerukotvornij), which is allegedly located in the Cathedral of St. John in Turin, Italy. The story goes like this: Jesus once dried his face with a towel and the image of his face remained. He gave the towel to a messenger to take to the ruler of Edessa, located in what is now southeast Turkey, who had asked for Jesus’s help.
This Ubrus (the Slavic word for a towel) helped improve the ruler’s health, and he praised the Shroud and declared its location a Holy Site of Edessa. The above-mentioned Saracens, however, took the Shroud with them after sacking Edessa. In 944, the Byzantine emperors bought it back for 12,000 silver coins and 200 slaves. The Holy Shroud was taken back to Constantinopole (which today is Istanbul) and solemnly installed it into the cathedral there on 16 August 944 – which, by the Gregorian calendar now used in most of the world, is 29 August.

In Russia, there is a saying:
"the First Savior – one stands in water;
the Second Savior – one eats apples;
the Third Savior – one sells linen."

As you can see from this saying, the Christian and the pagan aspects of the Saviors are interrelated, as is Russian life. The interrelations from combining both Eastern and Western traditions has produced a unique third system of beliefs – another reason, in addition to those seen above, that the number 3 is a popular number in Russia.

© Konstantin Vassiliev
http://www.wscsd.org/ejournal/article.php3?id_article=151

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honey spas -
vacant swallow nests
soak up the sun

Natalia L. Rudychev

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honey spas --
she reads a Russia haiku
while toenails dry

Deborah P Kolodji

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honey spa
our savior savors
honey comb

"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes) 　

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apple spas
grannie's shawl
smells of pie

Apple Spas is a holiday celebrated on August 19. This is the day when apples are blessed. After the Apple Spas evenings get cooler and autumn begins. It is customary to enjoy apple pies, stewed apples and apple jam during this celebration.

Natalia L. Rudychev, Haikushoot BLOG

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third spas
ripens fruits
of the poet's tree

Third Spas is also called Linen Spas and Nut Spas.
It is celebrated on August 29. Nuts (for the most part hazelnuts) are blessed and eaten. After this day most of the harvest worries are over. Wheat is harvested and linen is taken care off. People have much more free time that can be devoted to thinking and creative activities.
In folklore hazel is often called the poet's tree.

Natalia L. Rudychev, Haikushoot BLOG


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***** Honey (hachimitsu) worldwide

***** Bee (mitsubachi) worldwide

***** Honey wine, mead, mulled mead (Met)


***** ..... EUROPA Saijiki


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