--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:35 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> >
> > > The people in the area I'm living in have a similar relationship
> > > with the winds. Winds, plural, not wind. There are many of
> > > them; they all have their own names and their own
characteristics.
> > > And they all presage certain events and economic trends and
> > > behaviors in the people. This dates back to the medieval
period.
> >
> > I wonder why it doesn't go back into antiquity? Perhaps a
migration at
> > that time?
>
> It might. It was just first documented (AFAIK) during the
> medieval period when the different names were used in
> a metaphorical way in the Troubadour poetry. The tradition
> may have existed orally for a long time before that.
Not to slight France, but naming specific regional
types of winds and attributing certain effects on
people to them is traditional worldwide. See a
previous post from me with the URL of a "named winds"
page. ("El Nino" is another example of a named wind,
but it's more of a global wind pattern, so it was
probably recognized only fairly recently; and I
don't think it's known for its psychic effects.)
I'd guess that agricultural and seafaring societies
would have had to be particularly attuned to
different kinds of winds.
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