Last week I wrote about reasons to celebrate the month of May. But I’ve since learned another significant aspect of this glorious month.
Have we ever wondered about the origin of the name of this month? Many of us might surmise that it has something to do with the maypole, that wooden artifact that was part of European folk festivals. It might have been associated with paganism in Germany during the Iron Age, but we’re just not sure about this in our attempt to reach back to the obscure past.
In Spanish, the month of “May” is “mayo” (not capitalized). Like much of Spanish, this is derived from Latin, in which the word “Maius” means “Maia’s month.” But then of course we find ourselves asking, “Who is Maia?”
