Since ancient times, people have turned to various natural phenomena as living beings, giving them names and deifying them. The purpose of this appeal was to appease the gods of nature, to ask them for good weather, sun and rain, a good harvest.
Beautiful poems were created, small songs, which later became known as “cries” and “sentences”. Sentencing, referring to natural phenomena, everyone wanted to propitiate God and turn to him with beautiful words.
Sentence is a verse about animals
In ancient times, children grew up in close proximity to nature. Parents were engaged in animal husbandry, and their yards were full of different domestic animals. From early childhood, every child began to observe their behavior, copy sounds, movements. And mothers told children about animals, using small rhymes, nursery rhymes and jokes.
Over time, such forms of folklore were called "sentence." These are small poetic lines in which animals are referred.
The most popular were spring poems. The sentence is an opportunity to call spring birds back from the warm edges, because it was their return that was considered the beginning of a new season of spring field work.
Chants as an option to calm natural phenomena
The children also spoke out, appealing to natural phenomena. In them, they sought to turn to the sun, so that it began to warm better, and spring came. The cries and sentences served as a reason for conversion during a severe drought or prolonged rain. In such small nursery rhymes there were words of gratitude to nature for the fact that a person can live, eat, grow and develop in harmony with the outside world.
To date, there are several cycles of bookmarks: spring, summer and autumn. Each of them is used as gratitude and petition for blessings and mercy towards people.
Chants, sentences that have survived to this day
Today, children in kindergartens and schools learn a lot of verses from folk art for various holidays. In them, they turn to natural phenomena. The significance of these poems in the modern world is lost. Now the cry, the verdict is more a comic quatrain than the magic words of appeal to nature and animals. Today, a person can already explain what is happening and why in the world around us thanks to the knowledge accumulated over millennia.
Among the most popular are the following:
Larks! Larks!
Quail - quail
Fly to us, bring us
Warm spring, fertile summer,
Spring with rain, summer with herbs.
Ai, rainbow arc.
Don’t bring us rain.
Invite the sun,
Red bucket
Under our window.
Comic and funny sentences, calls - this is an opportunity not only to teach modern children to turn to nature, but also to love it.