This expression was obviously originally applied to the sky god, The God, The Lord of the early agricultural societies and the peasants, particularly the wheat farmers, whose lives depend on the climate...
Having the right weather at the right time is most important during the vegetative season from May to November. Having the right weather at the right time is in the north of Europe most critical right in the middle of the vegetative season. This is the period around the beginning of August. The period from just before the end of the ripening season to just after the beginning of the harvest season.
At this time, too much clear sunny sky and the wheat will burn.
Too much cloudy rainy sky and the wheat will not ripen properly or it will fall down and rot.
Either one of
these extremes will result in the destruction of the harvest and famine.
And so the wheat
farmers, the world over, have since the time immemorial been turning their eyes
to heaven (sky) at this time of the year, and praying to the same Sky God. They would pray to the one who "vedri i
oblači", the one who can make the sky clear and cloudy, The Lord in heaven (sky). They would pray to him, the Giving God (Dabog in Serbian) to give them just the right
amount of sunshine and rain, and by doing so to give them the good harvest.
And interestingly right there, on the 2nd of August, on the day that marks the border between the summer and autumn, growing and harvesting, we find In Ireland the day of Crom Dubh. I believe, as I said many times before, that this god is the same god which is in Serbia known as Hromi Daba, Dabog. And that both Chorm Dubh and Hromi Daba are just corruptions of Grom Div, The Thunder Giant, The Thunder God. That this is indeed so can be seen from the fact that the 2nd of August is in Serbia known as the day of Perun, the Thunder God, the one who "vedri i oblači", the one who can make the sky clear and cloudy, the Lord....
PS:
All weather-related French phrases also imply the action of God.
Il fait beau = He makes beautiful (weather)
Il pleut = He rains
Il vente = He winds
Il neige = He snows
etc.
Similarly, "Il fait la pluie et le bau temps" (he makes rain and sunshine) defines an all-mighty person.
Vendri(Serb) = Tengeri(Mongol: Open Sky God) = Tundra(Siberian: sunland = no shade trees) = Tien(Chinese: heaven) = Zion (Hebrew: Heaven) = Xyambuatl(sky-shine-bow)
ReplyDeleteT is an extremely archaic (pre-alphabet) symbol for the lights that cross through the sky - the solar arc and lightening. The Chinese is also T-An, suggestive of the high God of the Anu/Ainu.
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