This comic is my lovesong to the Finnish spring. Or a hate song? Love-hate-song? I don’t even know, I think me and Finnish spring have a bit of a toxic relationship.
This comic was actually made a couple of years back, because this spring has been way easier and more straightforward!
Also as a non-english speaker I have to point out, do you see how in my comic May comes before April? Yeah… about that. I was meant to say March, but I always forget March is the third month. March sounds like Marraskuu to me, and Marraskuu in Finnish is the November! Here are the months in their respective order in Finnish (with literal tarnalations in english in brackets) for those who are interested in this kind of useless information:
Tammikuu (central moon)
Helmikuu (pearl moon)
Maaliskuu (earthly moon)
Huhtikuu (burn-clearing moon)
Toukokuu (spring field work moon)
Kesäkuu (summer moon)
Heinäkuu (hay moon)
Elokuu (living moon)
Syyskuu (autumn moon)
Lokakuu (dirty moon)
Marraskuu (death moon)
Joulukuu (yule/christmas moon)
See how all the month names describe the month some way? Either the work done on a farm that month or what the month looks like! Fun fact, tammi, as in January, Tammikuu, also means oak. But in this case tammi doesn’t come from that meaning, but from the meaning of a central pole that was believed to hold up the sky and make it rotate in Finnish folklore (taivaantammi). I’m pretty sure oak also got it’s name from that central pole. After all oaks are very sturdy, big and beautiful trees that could be imagined as the pole that holds up the sky!
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