愚人節(jié)的傳說

       Mythological roots  神話傳說

There have been quite a few attempts to provide mythological explanations for the rise of April Fool's Day.

愚人節(jié)的起源也有許多神話故事。

One story dates back to Roman mythology, particularly the myth of Ceres (the Goddess of grain and the harvest) and Proserpina. In Roman mythology Pluto, the God of the Dead, abducted Proserpina and brought her to live with him in the underworld. Proserpina called out to her mother Ceres for help, but Ceres, who could only hear the echo of her daughter's voice, searched in vain for Proserpina. The fruitless search of Ceres for her daughter was commemmorated during the Roman festival of Cerealia and believed by some to have been the mythological antecedent of the fool's errands popular on April 1st.

其中之一可以追溯到羅馬神話，特別是羅馬神話中豐饒女神及其女普羅塞耳皮娜的故事。傳說，冥神普羅托誘拐普羅塞耳皮娜并將其帶至地獄一同生活。普羅塞耳皮娜向母親求助，但是豐饒女神卻只能聽見其女的回聲，苦尋無果。豐饒女神尋女的故事在農(nóng)神節(jié)上被人記錄流傳下來，并被一些人看作是4月1日愚人常做傻事的神話起源。