We spent the day yesterday clearing away what remained of last fall's leaf cover. It was a glorious day to be outside. In addition to grasses, crocuses were up, the lilacs budding, daffodil and daylily breaking soil, and the birds, oh the birds. A northern flicker climbed the black cherry near where we worked. We heard a larger woodpecker nearby. Something with a yellow belly flew overhead. Cardinals sang to us (ok, to their mates). We heard and/or saw gulls (laughing gulls by the sound of them), geese, something we believe most have been an eagle with a loud, high, long whistle, and just at sunset, loons on the lake.
It was a perfect afternoon for thinking about spring festivals instead of getting back to work.
If we could get all our pagan holidays on contemporary calendars, today we'd be starting our neoversion of the Roman
Megalesia (April 4-10 on the Roman Calendar) a six-day celebration of the arrival of Cybele's stone in Rome some 2200 years ago.,
The stone, a large black meteorite later modified by the Romans into the likeness of Cybele (aka
Magna Mater aka
Ops), was brought from Pessinus, Anatolia to Rome on the advice of the Sybils, oracles who said her stone would help the Romans defeat Hannibal the Carthaginian.
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