May 10 is Ploughing Day.
This venerated Brahmin ritual has links with Buddhist tradition and requires a royal minister to feed two Sacred Cows in Sanam Luang. The future is predicted according to whether Prakho Therd and Phrakho Thoon (Name of the cows) eat rice paddy, maize, green bean, sesame, hard liquor, water or grass. A repast of paddy or maize foretells an ample crop as does a dinner of green bean or sesame. Water or grass foretell an abundance of rain, thereby insuring a successful harvest. The choice of liquor protends good commerce. Rice farmers throng to the park in order to bring a few rice grains back home to spread the luck to their own fields.
A similar plowing in Cambodia came up with two results.
Good season and bad season.
Some westerners might consider this practice backward, but not the natives of Punxsutawney, Pa, because Groundhog Day is their day. Bill Marray was even in a moive about it, where he had to love Annie McDowell.
Man, does she have a big ass.
The groundhog seeing its shadow predicts an early spring.
Few people know that this holiday originates from pagan times.
Like Christmas and Easter, but not St. Patrick’s Day since he doesn’t exist to the Church anymore.
Anyway Feb 2 was the halfway point between winter and spring.
Still is.
Native Americans supposedly sacrificed the fattest tribe member to please the Great Spirit.
The fat boy would get a last meal and then have his throat slit.
If the shaman then saw his shadow, winter would last another three months.
Early Christian settlers frowned on this rites and the Indians subtituted a groundhog.
A fat one to be sure.
Like maybe as fat as Annie McDowell.
The SPCA stopped that tradition.
Hopefully the original Brahmin ceremony had nothing involved human sacrifice, but it was very popular back in ancient times. Nothing gets a crowd like human sacrifice. Especially a virgin. Europa was given to a bull. Old Zeus. Calssic myths always have a little truth to them. All the best lies do.
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