…So in England, on the summer solstice, bonfires were lit and people would jump over them as a spell to pray for a good harvest. The English name, flax, comes from an old Teutonic word meaning "to strip the skin and extract the fiber," and it is said that it was the earth goddess Hulda who taught this to humans. According to legend, the goddess appears on earth twice a year, in summer and winter, from a cave near Unterlassen in Tyrol, to check on how people are working and how the flax is growing. If people do not work hard enough, the next year's harvest will be reduced, and so the flower's meaning was chosen to be "housework-minded." … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Hulda" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…そこでイギリスでは,夏至の日にかがり火をたき,それを飛び越えて豊作を祈るまじないとした。英名flaxは〈皮をはぎ繊維を採ること〉を意味する古チュートン語に由来しているが,これを人間に教えたのは大地の女神フルダHuldaといわれ,伝承によれば女神はチロルのウンターラッセン近くにある洞穴から,夏と冬の2回地上へ現れ,人々の働きぶりと亜麻の育ちぶりを見て回るという。もしも人々が十分な労働をしていなければ,翌年の収穫量は減らされることになり,したがって花ことばにも〈家事熱心〉が選ばれている。… ※「Hulda」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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