As we speak is Mom’s Day as it’s historically celebrated on the second Sunday of Might. Specifically, for 2024 Mom’s Day might be celebrated right this moment on Sunday, Might 12.
Mom’s Day or Mom’s Day is a vacation in honor of moms and motherhood. In Greece and in lots of different nations, it’s celebrated on the second Sunday of Might.
The primary references to Mom’s Day and motherhood come from historic Greece.
Mom Earth (Gaia) consort of Heaven is the personification of nature, giving delivery to the entire world and worshiped because the supreme deity. The cult then passes to her daughter Rhea, spouse and sister of Saturn.
Rhea is worshiped because the “Mom of the Gods”, as she appears to be the primary to offer delivery and nurse her kids with breast milk. The traditional Greeks honored Rhea each spring, as she was additionally the goddess of the earth and fertility.
It was established within the twentieth century and originates from the English and American girls’s motion. The American Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis first organized in 1865 a motion known as Moms Friendships Day and conferences known as Moms Day Conferences, throughout which moms exchanged opinions and experiences. In 1870, Julia Ward Howe organized an occasion of a peaceable gathering of moms with the slogan peace and motherhood with the purpose of not sending kids to battle.
In Greece, Mom’s Day was related to the feast of Hypapanti (February 2). Then the orthodox church celebrates the Virgin Mary with Joseph who take the 40-day-old Jesus to the Temple for a blessing. To “get forty”, in fashionable terminology. A motion that Christian moms nonetheless do right this moment (Sardism). The parallel celebration of the mom started in 1929 with apparent symbolism. However throughout the Sixties, the celebration light and the westernized customized of celebrating the 2nd Sunday in Might was strengthened. Nevertheless, the church insists on the outdated day of celebration and organizes associated occasions.
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