The nine day festival of worshipping mother nature begins today.
The entire country does not eat onions, garlic, meat products, or even grains for a week. No bread, no lentils, no beans. Only two kinds of flour. Chestnut flour and buckwheat flour (Bovete in swedish). Potatoes, all kinds, sweet and others. Greens and milk are allowed too.
This 7-9 days diet allows for slow changes in our body required during the change of season to protect ourselves from infection and diseases.
Young girls all over the country know that at the end of the nine day festival they will be honoured with fruits, scarves, nail polishes, home made food and money.
Twice a year we do this. At the change of seasons. To remind ourselves that we cannot do anything on this planet without mother nature. Nor without the species who are closest to nature.
Women!
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