Not a day without holidays!

May 22 - Tuesday

Veshnee Makoshie (Earth Day)
International Day for Biological Diversity

1856 Day of the foundation of the Tretyakov Gallery
1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield invented a tube for toothpaste

Holy day, when the Mother of Cheese-Earth is honored as a "birthday girl". It is believed that on this day the Earth "rest", so it can not plow, dig, harrow, it can not stick stakes and throw knives. Particularly revered on this day Velez and Makosh - Earth protectors. The Magi go out into the field, lie down on the grass - they listen to the Earth.
At the beginning of the plowed ahead of the furrow put the grain and pour beer, sentencing, facing east:
Mother of Cheese-Earth! Uymi you every uncle unclean from the spell, turnover and dashing deeds.
Turning to the west, continue:
Mother of Cheese-Earth! Absorb you an unclean force in the abyss of effervescent, into the resin fuel.
Turning to noon, say:
Mother of Cheese-Earth! You quit all the winds of the midday with rage, wipe out the sands of the sands with the blizzard.
At midnight they address:
Mother of Cheese-Earth! Uymi you winds midnight with clouds, keep frost with snowstorms.
After each treatment, pour beer into the furrow, and then break the jug in which it was brought. Once in the old days there was another rite with a furrow and grain, after which children were born, but now in connection with the changes in morals, the rite is limited to spells on the side of the world.
After the spells of the Magi, digging the earth with their fingers and whispering: "Mother-Cheese-Earth, tell me, tell the whole truth, show me (name)," guessing about the future by the signs in the land that meet. Warriors, laying down their arms and laying a piece of turf on their heads, swear to Mother Raw Earth, pledging to protect her from the enemy.
The beginning ends with glory:
Go, you are a damp earth,
Earth is motherly,
Mother, you are our own,
She gave birth to all of us,
I remembered and nurtured
And I gave the land.
For the sake of us, our children,
Potions you have made
And everyone gave a drink of cereal
Furious demon drive away
And in diseases help.
Take yourself from the urvati
Different needs, lands
For the sake of the Polish on the stomach.
After the beginning of the consecrated, a handful of Earth is collected in bags and stored as amulets. Brewfest and merrymaking end the holiday.